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Hydrogen is even harder to find than charging infrastructure. It’s not easy to convert a gas station into a hydrogen station. To me the two solutions revolve a
by willio58 4y ago
Hydrogen is even harder to find than charging infrastructure. It’s not easy to convert a gas station into a hydrogen station.
To me the two solutions revolve around simple battery tech.
1. Charging stations like we have now but 100x as many.
2. Battery swap stations a la Nio in China. In their system you buy the car (for pretty cheap) and rent the battery. Makes upfront cost cheaper and batteries need replacing anyway so if you can swap batteries easily you never have to worry about this.
- _hypx 4y agoBattery swapping will utterly explode the amount of raw materials needed. It's going to be hydrogen cars simply because it is the genuinely scalable solution. The exact details don't really matter, so long as raw material usage is greatly reduced. You can have cars fully powered by hydrogen, or some kind of PHEV with a fuel cell range extender. Any variation of the idea will work.