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Electric cars with an hydrogen fuel cell are not competitive. They are more expensive, use more energy, and the hydrogen charging stations are also rare and mor
by speedgoose 4y ago
Electric cars with an hydrogen fuel cell are not competitive. They are more expensive, use more energy, and the hydrogen charging stations are also rare and more expensive to install and run.
- _hypx 4y agoA dated claim. They are the same price and not much more to run. In fact, at current gasoline/diesel prices, they are cheaper than conventional cars to run.
- speedgoose 4y agoYou need to compare against electric cars, not gas ones. The Toyota mirai is not extremely expensive but you can get much better cars for the money.
- _hypx 4y agoThat’s subjective. The Mirai refuels much faster and no EV at the same price has its range.
- speedgoose 4y agoThough it’s almost useless for long trips because hydrogen pumps are very rare and often out of range.
- _hypx 4y agoThat's more the fault of regulators not being serious about hydrogen infrastructure.
- josephcsible 4y agoIt's really easy to install EV charging stations basically anywhere. Its's a major ordeal to install a hydrogen station.
- jjtheblunt 4y agois there data or a citation for those claims?
- speedgoose 4y agoNo, I’m sorry I didn’t think it would be necessary. You can check the prices of new cars online quickly. For the energy the maths are simple because the efficiency ratios are on Wikipedia. About the rarity of hydrogen pumps, online maps will do, and for their prices I don’t really have a source because my company had a hygrogen fuelling station for some years and it was just mentioned in the small talks. That can probably be found online and I assume that the complexity has a cost, especially compared to a fast electric charger simply connected to the grid.