Subject: Re: Pilot and EVs
Hydrogen cars by 2025 ? BMW and Toyota.... end of EV's ? engineers and eco's love hydrogen

Gack! What problem does hydrogen solve that batteries don't? You can refuel hydrogen at a station faster than you can charge a battery at a station. Of course, you can't refuel your hydrogen car at night in your garage as you can an EV. When I had my Tesla, even with FREE supercharging I used superchargers ~10 to 20 times a year, on trips. My car was always full in the morning because I plugged it in when I got home each day.

And guess where you can get hydrogen fuel for your car? ALMOST NOWHERE! You think its hard to find a place to charge your EV? Nothing compared to finding Hydrogen. And at least your car you can charge at home, or even on the road from a regular electric plug, albeit pretty slowly.

Meanwhile, fuel cells cost a fortune. This guy https://www.arenaev.com/fuel_c... paid $110,000 to replace the fuel cell in his Hyundai, the repair bill is shown in the article. Makes a $15,000 batter for an EV look pretty cheap.

Meanwhile, Hydrogen is NOT a green fuel. The cheapest way to get Hydrogen fuel is the same as the cheapest way to get Gasoline : use fossil fuels and refine them. The green way to get Hydrogen fuel is expensive just like the gree way to get Gasoline. Using Electricity to do electolysis on water is both expensive and inefficient (much more electric power is put into electrolysis than can be recovered from the Hydrogen fuel produced).

This is an expensive inconvenient technology that doesn't solve any actual problems. It is an expensive sideshow for the uninformed.

I do not get how this technology continues getting press.

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