A station will open at the Las Vegas Valley Water District's main campus in October. It's part of a joint venture with the UNLV research foundation.

Two small hydrogen-powered water district trucks will use the station. The station will create hydrogen using solar-generated electricity. The extra fueling station is expected to promote the production and use of more hydrogen-powered cars.

Dr. Bob Boehm is director of the Energy Research Center at UNLV. "All of the major automobile manufacturers are working on vehicles of these types and they all have some kind of examples of these already currently, but they're all extremely expensive at the present time," Dr. Boehm said.

An $8.9 million federal grant is paying for the UNLV research and construction of the fueling station.

Already there is one hydrogen fuel station operating in the northwest end of the valley.