Good, hydrogen cars shouldn’t be a thing in the first place, hydrogen as fuel should only be used for heavy transport that fuels at the location where the hydrogen is produced.
This is such an ignorant statement. They’re complaining about the lack of infrastructure, not the car or tech. We need as many zero emission techs as possible, not just hoping batteries eventually figure it out.
A lot of hydrogen is derived from petroleum. Combine that with hydrogen’s penchant for leaking very easily and the infrastructure would require a constant replenishment of the stuff just to keep idle. Extrapolate that to hydrogen stations being as common as gas stations and you’ll see a lot of waste. For every day car use, it’d be better to use batteries.
Hydrogen as a fuel source is terrible, regardless of the amount of infrastructure surrounding it. It leaks like literally nothing else, you need to generate it (meaning it’s essentially energy storage), and the result of the two facts mean that it’s a horribly wasteful way to propel a car. The only reasons it’s an effective rocket fuel are because NASA doesn’t need to store it long-term and the savings you get from a traditional battery are far-outweighed by the benefits of a lighter load the further along you get.
This hype around H fuel is absolutely fucking batshit.
No it’s not, this is like complaining that EVs suck back in the day because they used lead-acid batteries… that’s what you and the rest of the anti-hydrogen groups are pissy about. It’s new tech, and has it’s place in renewables.
Nearly all cars will switch to hydrogen (or e-fuels). Using giant batteries to power cars is insanity. If you want to power cars directly with electricity, use mass transit systems with overhead powerlines.
Wrong
Hydrogen production and transportation doesn’t make sense unless it’s done locally (ex: produce it at a port, transport it to fuel the ships stationed at the port). Hydrogen is pretty much impossible to transport long distance without wasting so much energy that it doesn’t make sense to do it in the first place, then think about how hard it is for us to prevent leaks of petrol of all things, now think about the leaks if we’re transporting hydrogen instead.
You have inverted reality here. It is much easier to transport hydrogen long distances versus electricity. Pipelines are cheaper than HVDC cables. You can actually ship hydrogen across oceans if necessary. It is electricity that has to be made locally, but hydrogen can made anywhere it is cost effective.
hydrogen cars are electricity cars with extra steps, the gas isn’t burned but converted to electricity in a fuel cell to recharge a tiny battery
the monetary and environmental cost of a 50kwh battery (people shouldn’t want/need SUVs with 200 kwh batteries) is quickly offset when in order to make hydrogen you have to reform methane and deliver it all over the country via trucks
No they won’t, because you will soon be able to get a 1000km charge BEV and charge it at home. Hydrogen is a joke and this is like my tenth response to you on this subject which makes me think you’re here astroturfing for big oil. Every day hydrogen becomes a worse and worse alternative for the true winner.
You are imagining BEVs with ever larger and ever less cost effective batteries.
The problem is that the BEV was never intended to replace all cars. To even push this idea just means extremely expensive and non-environmental friendly batteries. You are just wasting your time on pushing greenwashing.
In reality, hydrogen is the only possible solution for most of transportation. Electricity should be reserved for directly electrified vehicles like trains or trolleybuses. Batteries powered vehicles only happened due to massive subsidies. It will revert back into a tiny niche or disappear entirely once those subsidies go away.