Well the thing with electric cells is that they have a limited lifetime, and renewing costs a bundle, and so does disposal, so in the long term hydrogen might become the choice?
There's about enough platinum(which is needed to make the hydrogen fuel cell) on earth to build maybe 10 million hydrogen cars. current cells literally take a phd to put togheter and once you have the cells up and running they'll last maybe 5 years. if you're lucky. You might say that with funding then cost could be cut and you could find alternative materials, which sounds good, but in reality there has been no significant advances in fuel cell tech for the last 20 years despite billions in funding and attempts at mass-production by multiple companies.
this is before you take into account that hydrogen in itself is very hard and inefficient to process into fuel, fuel stations that need to be built, specialized tanks needed to hold the hydrogen, oh and the price of all this. Which is high.
Let's just say if you thought the Tesla was a bit out of reach for the average person in terms of price then the hydrogen car might as well be on the moon.
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Better Place? I ll give you one home.
This is a nice attempt but with fail written all over it. Hydrogen fuel cell powered vehiclesl will win this round.
Yeah, hydrogen cells are going really far....
Well the thing with electric cells is that they have a limited lifetime, and renewing costs a bundle, and so does disposal, so in the long term hydrogen might become the choice?
There's about enough platinum(which is needed to make the hydrogen fuel cell) on earth to build maybe 10 million hydrogen cars. current cells literally take a phd to put togheter and once you have the cells up and running they'll last maybe 5 years. if you're lucky. You might say that with funding then cost could be cut and you could find alternative materials, which sounds good, but in reality there has been no significant advances in fuel cell tech for the last 20 years despite billions in funding and attempts at mass-production by multiple companies.
this is before you take into account that hydrogen in itself is very hard and inefficient to process into fuel, fuel stations that need to be built, specialized tanks needed to hold the hydrogen, oh and the price of all this. Which is high.
Let's just say if you thought the Tesla was a bit out of reach for the average person in terms of price then the hydrogen car might as well be on the moon.