I saw years ago some car companies realeasing hydrogen powered Cars. Now its just electrical Cars. What is wrong with Hydrogen Cars?
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Nothing is *wrong* with them, they just don’t really have any advantages over the alternatives.
Say you have a hydrogen car.
Now first, everywhere you drive we need to install hydrogen refueling stations. That’s a loooot of infrastructure. (Electric cars had the same issue, but have mostly passed that hurdle. The infrastructure for those mostly exists. And where it doesn’t, it’s pretty easy to add, since electricity is available pretty much everywhere. Hydrogen isn’t)
Secondly, where does the hydrogen come from? And the answer to that is “electricity, or fossil fuels”. So we just introduce another conversion step. Rather than running your car on fossil fuels directly, or running it on electricity, we use those to produce hydrogen, then we transport the hydrogen across the country to all the refueling stations, where it is loaded into your car.
It’s just simpler and more efficient to cut out the “hydrogen” step.
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