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I've always hoped hydrogen would have taken off. Since you can convert gas engines to run off of hydrogen it would be easier to move the market to hydrogen than
by asciimov 5y ago
I've always hoped hydrogen would have taken off. Since you can convert gas engines to run off of hydrogen it would be easier to move the market to hydrogen than electric. Allowing us to build out the infrastructure first, then transition vehicles over to fuel cell.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoBy the time you can build the infra, we'll have replaced all the ICE cars to EV. And the cost to build the infra far exceeds the cost to replace all ICE to EV and install electric chargers everywhere, too.
- HPsquared 5y agoBurning hydrogen in an ICE is a very expensive and inefficient process. It's a bit like electric heating, you need to first make the hydrogen which is itself a lossy process. In both cases, the "high-quality" energy source that is produced, can be efficiently used by a specific process (fuel cells for hydrogen, heat pumps for electricity) or squandered in an inefficient conversion process (internal combustion engine for hydrogen, resistive heating for electricity).