The Phoenix-based Nikola Corporation is in the process of planning out construction of what is being called a hydrogen production hub.
The manufacturer of fuel cell electric vehicles as well as heavy-duty commercial battery electric vehicles, Nikola, which was founded in Salt Lake City nearly a decade ago, first became a presence in metro Phoenix when it purchased nearly 400 acres of land in Coolidge, just to the southeast of Arizona’s biggest city.
Earlier this year, the company announced that it was moving its battery manufacturing operations from a location in Cypress, California to Coolidge, in order to house its truck assembly, fuel cell power module assembly, and battery module and pack production all in one location.
Now the company is engaged in a process to build new hydrogen facilities on nearly 1,000 acres on the south side of Buckeye, 90 miles to the northwest of the Coolidge site.
The Buckeye facility will be devoted to the production of supply materials for the company’s hydrogen fuel cell fleet of semitrucks.
Plans for the hydrogen hub, which will go up just to the west of Arizona State Route 85, have now been submitted to the City of Buckeye.
By Garry Boulard
