The Egg Cracks in the City that is Culver

Goodbye, Shell Hydrogen in Culver City.  You've been mediocre...

Shell has decided to close the hydrogen station in Culver City, located off the 405 freeway at Venice Blvd.  This is a significant blow to 700 bar users in the greater Los Angeles area, leaving no other options for hydrogen dispensers in the west side of LA.  As previously stated on the earlier post, the 350 bar station in West LA is the only duct tape solution to this problem in need of a weld.  The station will be relegated to the history of hydrogen fuel in Los Angeles on December 31, 2011.  Perhaps all of us Fuel Cell car owners can throw a big party there on New Year's Eve and ring in 2012 without anyplace to fill up! 

There are plans for a new station in Beverly Hills, but last I checked, they were still just "plans".  Once again, two steps forward; ten steps back.  I personally still have easy access to the Torrance station as my office is down that ways, but for my Fuel Cell driving colleagues who live and work on the west side, their practical refueling options just got significantly diminished.