What factors led to shift away from pursuing hydrogen-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles?
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Basic economics. Handling hydrogen in a portable manner is bleeding expensive, and energy efficiency is poor in comparison to batteries.
Now, if you had an overabundance of renewable energy and more hydrogen than you knew what to do with, that’s another matter. But building hydrogen cars before that situation is putting the cart in front of the horse.
The hydrogen economy will not start with cars. It’ll start with stationary industrial uses.
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