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Good point on the city cars and yes you're right, predicting the future has never gone well and I can't predict how the infrastructure is going to look like in
by tsahyt 14y ago
Good point on the city cars and yes you're right, predicting the future has never gone well and I can't predict how the infrastructure is going to look like in a decade or so. However, the hydrogen fuel cell technology is here now and it works well yet there's very little hype around it. Hybrids and EVs on the other hand are hyped to hell and back while (for the time being) they are just not good enough. Hybrids, yes, obviously. But they don't solve the problem. Additionally those batteries weigh quite a bit. Unnecessary weight == wasted energy.
- wutbrodo 14y agoThanks for the insight; I had heard about hydrogen fuel cells as far back as 2002, but only in a very theoretical sense (plus I was in middle school back then...). They definitely do look promising; my guess regarding why there hasn't been much hype around them is that (per Wikipedia) they've been prohibitively expensive until rather recently (in 2002, hydrogen fuel cell cars were estimated to cost $1mn, $300k in 2009, etc)[1]. That being said, it does like it's approaching cost-effectiveness in the near future. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Fuel_cell_cost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle#Fuel_cell_cost