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>The sad thing is that converting a petrol car to hydrogen is pretty doable so we could reuse our existing cars and save tons of money if hydrogen were the focu
by taskforcegemini 3y ago
>The sad thing is that converting a petrol car to hydrogen is pretty doable so we could reuse our existing cars and save tons of money if hydrogen were the focus now.
how so? aren't current hydrogen cars basically electric cars with hydrogen merely powering its generator?
- drtgh 3y agoHe means to adapt for hydrogen gas combustion. Without the fuel cells used by the hydrogen electrical ones. Although we are talking of different pressures, at first sight it sounds feasible, due to adapt motors for using butane gas combustion has been done for decades, they use the luggage space for to place the tanks. So he points it would have been more practical to wait for the needed tech in electric batteries and motors, using those hydrogen conversions by the moment as a transition (hydrogen would be obtained mainly from oil extraction, if I remember well, as the electrolysis tech is not there yet). I'm not sure if the recharge points would accept to cross through two transitions in such short range of time (petrol towards hydrogen towards electrical), but more important is that I don't know where all the electrical energy that is going to be needed is going to come from.