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A hydrogen pump just got installed in my county last month, actually. > regulation was heavily stopping any car startup, and the catch-22 problem of not being
by smoldesu 3y ago
A hydrogen pump just got installed in my county last month, actually.
> regulation was heavily stopping any car startup, and the catch-22 problem of not being able to charge because nobody had electric cars existed.
Now we have electric subsidies and replete charging stations, and we're not really any closer to democratizing the technology. I'll be real - the focus on scaling-up lithium-ion has been detrimental to the electric car industry, and set them back so far that hydrogen ignition might still win the lower-end market. Tesla put their pearls before their swine, and now it feels like they're paying the price.
- marcosdumay 3y agoHydrogen powered cars are so full of problems that they won't happen anywhere. Nowadays electric cars are a visible minority almost everywhere on the planet. People seriously discuss the charging infrastructure. And there are many companies seriously selling those cars, a few even specialized only on the electric power-train that have no model at all immediately moved by combustion (but AFAIK, only Tesla doesn't do hybrids). Electric cars are here to stay. Tesla may have made some bad decisions, but they moved the entire political framework.