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The difference there lies in that the electrical infrastructure can be overhauled gradually, as electric car adoption increases. We already have something that
by henrikschroder 12y ago
The difference there lies in that the electrical infrastructure can be overhauled gradually, as electric car adoption increases. We already have something that is useful to the current EV owners, and it can be made better. I'm also not convinced that the utilities are correct, current peak use is probably a lot higher than what a fleet of slow-charging vehicles would consume at night.
In the case of hydrogen infrastructure, we have nothing. If you're the first guy to buy a hydrogen car, you can't fill it up anywhere, there's an enormous amount of investment and work needed to get to that first hydrogen gas station, and I don't see that happening. Who would put up the money to make that bet?
- dragonwriter 12y ago> In the case of hydrogen infrastructure, we have nothing. Well, more than nothing, but not a lot just now. Though more is in development. > If you're the first guy to buy a hydrogen car, you can't fill it up anywhere I'm going to guess that the first several tens of thousands of people to buy consumer electric vehicles in the US will be clustered around the places where the existing infrastructure is [1], so that this won't be even approximately true (there'll be an interesting trade off until infrastructure builds out in that FCVs will have a longer single charge/tank range than EVs, but a much more limited area of operations since there'll be limited refueling locations especially outside of the "home" areas.) [1] e.g., in California, http://www.cafcp.org/stationmap http://www.cafcp.org/stationmap
- henrikschroder 12y agoOh wow, I did not know this existed! That's great, nothing's better than healthy competition!