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Construction is one space. Another would be extreme cold environments. Most lithium battery packs I'm aware of in cars can be permanently damaged if they get t
by to11mtm 4y ago
Construction is one space.
Another would be extreme cold environments. Most lithium battery packs I'm aware of in cars can be permanently damaged if they get too cold internally. In many cases there is a special heating element to prevent this by drawing just enough power to keep the battery in a safe temperature range. But I'm certain there are still edge cases.
The case everyone seems to ignore however; 'Developed' countries are just barely getting their act together with public charging infrastructure on the whole. Barely. What about all of the still Developing countries?
My stab-in-the-dark guess is that Toyota and Honda hope that at scale, Fuel cells will not be much more expensive than ICE vehicles. i.e. a Mirai and Camry if made in same numbers, would maybe be 1-2k away from each other in price. In that scenario, Hydrogen makes sense in a lot more places, even if it is not an ideal solution.
- p_l 4y agoHydrogen and BEV charging can easily go hand in hand, too, as hydrogen charging station is most profitable with on-site electrolyzers (which nicely bypass huge chunk of transport problems). And while this cartridge is not super useful for cars (my understanding is that hydrogen charging been already done to high usability level) it does increase options for disconnected operations that presently have to use fossil fuels.