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The “battery” of the future will be something akin to hydrogen fuel cells. You eliminate all significant raw material requirements while still having an EV. The
by _hypx 3y ago
The “battery” of the future will be something akin to hydrogen fuel cells. You eliminate all significant raw material requirements while still having an EV. The problem is that it is highly disruptive to the current trend of BEVs with giant batteries.
- bink 3y agoWhere would the hydrogen come from?
- _hypx 3y agoWater electrolysis deployed on a vast scale.
- anon84873628 3y agoWhy do we even need electric motors? For the last hundred years we could have been running ICEs on ethanol produced from organic waste...
- eternityforest 3y agoIt's still not ideal because there's more than just Co2 coming from exhaust, but even if that was solved, is there actually enough waste to meet current demand? Some low effort googling shows there's over 100bn gallons of gas a year used in the US, 320 million tons of crop waste, and it takes 26lbs of corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol. Actually collecting and converting all the waste doesn't seem like an easy task or we'd presumably be doing it already, maybe it's cheaper to do EVs?