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Infrastructure. Everyone has a wall socket in their garage or on their house’s exterior wall. And adding an L2 charger is not costly. The public charging netwo
by yuppie_scum 5y ago
Infrastructure.
Everyone has a wall socket in their garage or on their house’s exterior wall. And adding an L2 charger is not costly. The public charging networks are really just a bonus, day to day charging is done at home. So the infrastructure is pretty much already in place.
There are like 15 hydrogen filling stations in the USA and those are almost entirely limited to California’s major metro regions. Building out a network for the common North American to use would require a major investment by private capital with encouragement by state and federal subsidies.
Until I think the ideal mix would be PHEVs with medium sized batteries (100 ish mile range for day trips/commuting) and fuel cells for long haul highway driving. Then you could focus on interstate highways to build out a hydrogen network. But battery tech and charging networks are advancing fast enough to make range anxiety less of an issue every day.