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I thought the issue with H was transportation: a critical hurdle for new fuel technology adoption is safety (as seen in Tesla's quick and overprotective additio
by tammer 11y ago
I thought the issue with H was transportation: a critical hurdle for new fuel technology adoption is safety (as seen in Tesla's quick and overprotective addition of an armored underbody on the Model S when a few stray stories of crashes caught flames in the press). Tankers of H hurdling down our freeways?
I feel like range anxiety on full-on EV's will dissipate in the next few years as we get to 300+ miles on a charge. After that, what's the downside?
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> I feel like range anxiety on full-on EV's will dissipate in the next few years as we get to 300+ miles on a charge. After that, what's the downside? For users? Nothing. For centralized energy providers? They're about to lose out in a huge way.
- JumpCrisscross 11y ago> Tankers of H hurdling down our freeways? Perhaps self-driving and hydrogen cars are co-dependent technologies.
- dalke 11y agoThe dream expressed in the article would be to have high-pressure electrolysis to produce hydrogen on-site. I won't disagree if you think that 300+ miles/charge will come first.
- Retra 11y agoElectrolysis is a fairly inefficient way to produce hydrogen. If you've got enough energy to do electrolysis, then you've got enough energy to run a motor. The only technical reason you'd want to use hydrogen is that you can do combustion and long-term fuel storage. It would be valuable if you were using something like sunlight to produce hydrogen, since sunlight can't really run a car.