Initially, probably most of the focus...You have to look at the entire value chain. You have to put public money and attract private money to support different links in this value chain. Like any chain, it's only as strong as the weakest link. One of the weakest links in the problem is that vehicles that use hydrogen are made in ones or twos right now. They're not made in tens of thousands like diesel vehicles are, so they're very expensive.
We're going to need to create opportunities to support the deployment of these vehicles, initially in demonstrations and small pilots, but eventually in hundreds of buses that will be supporting municipal bus fleets, and the deployment of large-scale hydrogen trucks on major corridors. I'm talking about very big transport trucks that use a lot of fuel.
The economics of buying these vehicles is very challenging. The government will need to support those vehicles until the production levels of those vehicles start to go up and the price comes down. Most of the estimates are that within the next eight to 10 years we'll be pretty close to cost parity if we start to really build lots these vehicles and have them deployed.
That has to be coordinated by making sure we have supporting fuelling stations. Ideally, we have to have the infrastructure for pipeline distribution of hydrogen along major corridors.
We have to be focused on where we are trying to be by 2030, 2035 or 2040, and start putting that infrastructure in today. It's not lost money. The money from the federal government could be put in low-cost or zero interest loans. The money will come back to the government as this pipeline starts to get used, and we start to develop this new hydrogen economy.
Those are the kinds of infrastructures that we need to invest in.