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Interesting that Honda has gone down the Fuel cell route, with EV coming soon for the clarity. Fuel cells are not going to win in this market due to the Tesla
by kristianp 10y ago
Interesting that Honda has gone down the Fuel cell route, with EV coming soon for the clarity. Fuel cells are not going to win in this market due to the Tesla effect.
http://automobiles.honda.com/clarity http://automobiles.honda.com/clarity
- prostoalex 10y agoToyota is also selling a fuelcell Mirai in limited markets.
- Animats 10y agoYes, you can buy a Toyota Mirai in California. Toyota is selling about 100 a month. This includes three years of hydrogen, and they even have some filling stations.
- astrange 10y agoHydrogen isn't a clean fuel, since the cheapest way to make it right now is from natural gas.
- adrianN 10y agoThe battery in a Tesla is also not clean fuel because the cheapest way to charge it is from coal fired power plants.
- astrange 10y agoTrue for most of the US but the Mirai is only sold in California which doesn't use more than 6% coal.[1] Fuel cells seem like they'd be good for vehicles that can't have charging downtime. But then again hydrogen seems obnoxiously difficult to store what with all the escaping and the catching fire, so maybe we can stick to ICE and synfuels? [1] http://www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/tracking_progress/documents/current_expected_energy_from_coal.pdf http://www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/tracking_progress/docume...
- cowardlydragon 10y agohttp://energypost.eu/hydrogen-fuel-cell-cars-competitive-hydrogen-fuel-cell-expert/ http://energypost.eu/hydrogen-fuel-cell-cars-competitive-hyd...