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That's why hydrogen cars can't compete with electric cars. Even at $100,000 per charger, electric car infrastructure is still appearing pretty slowly. Now imagi
by higherpurpose 13y ago
That's why hydrogen cars can't compete with electric cars. Even at $100,000 per charger, electric car infrastructure is still appearing pretty slowly. Now imagine how much it's going to take when a hydrogen charging station is more like $1.5 million - but for some reason the states want to fund those instead of electric chargers. It makes no sense.
Not to mention that with such chargers you can charge you car for free, while hydrogen will still cost quite a bit (probably not much less than gas).
- magic_haze 13y ago1. You won't have to wait for an hour for your tank to fill up. 2. The supercharges aren't free: you're paying for them when you buy the car. And it's proprietary: you can't use it with other electric cars.
- vonklaus 13y agoHydrogen is a loss-leader put out there to buy Energy companies to buy a few more years of their incumbency and rent-seeking behaviour. It is just publicity and marketing. I am not a physicist, but I am pretty sure that the process of chopping up CH4 (methane; an already efficient source-fuel) and converting it to hydrogen to run in sub-optimal conditions in a small engine without any nationalized distribution method; is nothing more than posturing. Hydrogen is a relatively dangerous element and is pretty difficult to transport. It IS the most abundant element in the Universe. Unfortunately, just not on Earth....