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One irony is that hydrogen cars are actually a better option than ICE. They're just both blown away by BEVs because batteries and supporting tech has progressed
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
One irony is that hydrogen cars are actually a better option than ICE. They're just both blown away by BEVs because batteries and supporting tech has progressed so dramatically.
- robertlagrant 3y agoA better option in what circumstance?
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoIn the circumstance that we wanted to deal with climate change, local air pollution and inefficiency of ICE, but didn't have modern battery tech available. If we somehow magically knew that we'd hit a physics limit with battery tech over a decade ago, hydrogen for personal vehicles would be a good range extender option and worth rolling out the infrastructure to support. And bear in mind, basically every FCEV containts a small battery BEV at its heart.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI thought hydrogen was still difficult to handle and store. Is that information out of date?
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoGasoline is difficult to handle and store too. It can cost over a million to remediate a single gas station, totaling billions across the US. See HN discussion on "The hidden cost of gasoline" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36471601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36471601