Oklahoma wants to be the home of electric-, hydrogen-fueled vehicles

March 7, 2022

Gov. Kevin Stitt’s administration is betting big on electric- and hydrogen-fueled vehicles coming to Oklahoma.

Officials say they’re pressing forward with an aggressive recruitment campaign courting as many as 14 companies, including one business that reportedly is eyeing a location in Pryor that could create as many as 4,000 to 6,000 jobs in Northeast Oklahoma. That’s on top of an announcement last year that involved 2,000 manufacturing and related jobs.

Oklahoma officials also recently recognized that the state has the necessary ingredients needed to build a thriving hydrogen industry, including the natural gas component and the existing pipelines to transport it. Oklahoma already has industries that are skilled at all the components that it would take to create hydrogen, Lepak said. Hydrogen is a clean alternative fuel source

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