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NEWS<br />
The sole<br />
hydrogen<br />
station in<br />
Northern<br />
California is at<br />
1515 S. River<br />
Road in West<br />
Sacramento.<br />
More stations<br />
will open in<br />
the coming<br />
months.<br />
engineer. Glenn Rambach, who just turned 70, actually worked on<br />
the space program, and remembers when General Electric started<br />
developing fuel-cell technology to power long-duration space flights.<br />
Now Rambach’s working to develop hydrogen fueling stations.<br />
Rambach immediately experienced the need for more fuel<br />
resources. As he prepared to drive away in his new Mirai, he realized<br />
he had only a half-tank of hydrogen. Roseville Toyota will have a<br />
mobile fueling station at its site starting next week, but for now, the<br />
salesperson could only shrug helplessly.<br />
The Mirai’s lifeline—the only active retail station in Northern<br />
California as of this writing—is over 20 miles away from Roseville<br />
Toyota, at 1515 S. River Road in West Sacramento. I’m writing out the<br />
address because it’s hard to find: tucked into a corner of a petroleum<br />
storage facility in an industrial part of town. This isn’t somewhere<br />
Rambach will stop on the way to the grocery store; this will be a<br />
planned and essential trip.<br />
Rambach described how the fueling technology, which uses valve<br />
ports that plug into each other, is “smart.” The car can tell the<br />
station how much fuel it has and how much more it needs, so it<br />
can’t be overfilled.<br />
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