At first glance, an open-pit platinum mine in South Africa and the Baja 1000 off-road race don’t have much in common other than an excess of dust. But both have been chosen by a company called First Mode to be test sites for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV). The sites will stress-test the technology…

The platinum mine, located in northeastern South Africa, is called Mogalakwena. The mine’s owner, Anglo American, has been looking for ways to decarbonize its operations and identified that the largest source of emissions pollution was the site’s massive Komatsu 930E trucks…

First Mode is working with Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus on the off-road racing attempt. The two organizations first made contact over a possible lunar surface project, as Voorhees was impressed by SCG’s determination to build successful racing cars that can also be made road-legal.
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