AUSTIN (KXAN) — A caravan of cars from the University of Texas in Austin made a journey from the state capital to Houston this June. The journey is one that many people take every year, but this trip was a little tricky.
The three cars run on hydrogen fuel. Also, there is only one commercial hydrogen fuel pump in the state, and it’s located at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in North Austin.
“We just knew we had one shot,” said Grace Childers, a chemical engineering student with the Center for Electromechanics at UT Austin. Childers drove one of the three cars to Houston…