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The benefit of hydrogen IMO is not needing to mine tons of potentially hazardous or toxic minerals to make giant swaths of batteries, not to mention that you ca
by nuclear_eclipse 14y ago
The benefit of hydrogen IMO is not needing to mine tons of potentially hazardous or toxic minerals to make giant swaths of batteries, not to mention that you can actually fill up the fuel tanks just like you would with gasoline, rather than needing to wait 30-60 minutes for a "supercharger", and the overall range of existing hydrogen vehicles is generally on par with or better than the range of gas-powered vehicles.
They've already "solved" most of the problems you mention; the "problems" are with scaling that sort of infrastructure. Scaling EV chargers is just much simpler.
- pm90 14y agoOnce the number of EV's get high enough, we can have recycling stations for them. Another benefit of having an Electric car is that you don't care about the source that produces the electricity. So tomorrow when cold fusion is feasible, we just build a bunch of them and power all our vehicles with the electricity that they produce. However, I am interested in hydrogen as a fuel from a long term perspective. In the future when we have vehicles that need to run on other planets, presumably hydrogen will be the fuel; however I'm not sure those engines will be IC; maybe miniaturized jet engines? :) edit: probably not, since jet engines need oxygen which may not be available on other planets