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They've been doing it for twenty years, hydrogen allows maintaining a distribution network and *most of all* to keep using fossil fuels to generate it
by g-b-r 3y ago
They've been doing it for twenty years, hydrogen allows maintaining a distribution network and *most of all* to keep using fossil fuels to generate it
- ska 3y agoMuch longer than 20 years. But the reason it hasn't taken off is that both the economics and the physics don't work very well for consumer vehicles.
- tekknik 3y agoBecause gasoline was more convenient. Now with clean emission mandates gasoline can’t be used anymore. But that doesn’t mean EVs suddenly got more efficient.
- Smoosh 3y agoI think that it is just as important for the oil industry to make it look like alternatives are being tried, but they just don't work out, so that the status quo seems more acceptable.
- parineum 3y agoThis is true and is contrary to this headline/quote. The oil sector is lobby for hydrogen but the attribution of motive is off. They are lobbying _for_ hydrogen, not against EVs.
- g-b-r 3y agoEVs happen to not need their oil, I have the feeling that they have and are still lobbying the sh*t against EVs; lobbying for hydrogen is one way to lobby against EVs, and if hydrogen were (or had been) successful it's potentially infinitely more profitable than EVs for oil companies.