First Mode’s Chris Voorhees almost became a musician — having been raised by a pair of musicians — before changing tack and going on to spend 15 years working for NASA and then founding Seattle-based creative engineering firm First Mode.

(…) Voorhees, unsurprisingly, feels very differently. Hydrogen versus electric vehicles is “the wrong argument,” he claims. “It reminds me of the solar versus wind argument that happened with renewable energy in the late 90s and early 2000s. Like, which one of these is the right one to win? It turns out both were really good. And I feel the same way here. I look at them as complementary technologies. And we use both.”

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