We see so many battery electric cars being purchased but very little of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. What are the reasons?
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So, so so so so many reasons. Here a link to an article written by a frustrated individual that does an epic run down of all the issues, (but be warned, it’s about 10,000 words.) [https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/12/the-life-story-of-a-committed-hydrogen-for-energy-worker-unfolds/](https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/12/the-life-story-of-a-committed-hydrogen-for-energy-worker-unfolds/)
Of course this is EILI5 so you’re not hear to read a war & peace length novel on all the shortcomings of hydrogen so let me give you the two main reasons hydrogen has failed.
1. NO INFRASTRUCTURE! For all the talk about how fast it would be to gas up a hydrogen car for that epic road trip… you can’t because there’s literally nowhere outside of California to actually obtain hydrogen.
But why is that? Well, that brings us to number 2:
Everything about hydrogen is EXPENSIVE. Hydrogen fuel is about 10x the cost of gasoline to drive the same distance. If everything works, maybe one day it will only be 3x. Toyota literally gives you $15,000 worth of fuel if you buy their car and it’s still not enough. But that’s just the fuel, the cost to install a nationwide network of hydrogen pumps would bankrupt every company on earth. It’s so so so so unbelievably expensive.
So there you go. There’s no where to fill up and even if there was, you couldn’t afford it.
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