What factors led to shift away from pursuing hydrogen-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles?
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You got a lot of technical answers already and one conspiracy based answer. I’m going on a different track… Apathy.
Those with the finances to do the R&D were dragging their feet on both technologies because of the great cash cow that is ICE vehicles. Even companies like Toyota that were “going hard on Hydrogen” weren’t really spending all that much to try to bring it to fruition. I take it back, GM *did* produce an electric car, but they were too scared of falling behind financially against their competitors so they killed it (the government didn’t help in this regard either.)
Then along comes an upstart tech billionaire who decides he will do it. He has to choose between electric and hydrogen and went with electric. Huge surprise to all the other car companies, his company was wildly successful. So now the big car companies are jumping on the band wagon and hydrogen is left behind.
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