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    8 months ago

    1 - renewable surpluses

    Creating hydrogen is incredibly inefficient if you look at all the steps involved. It will be significantly more inefficient if you don’t create hydrogen 24/7. Meaning, it’ll cost significantly more to rely on a surplus of electricity. Meaning, it is way more expensive per mile or km driven.

    2 - total life cycle cost.

    The tank in an hydrogen car is only good for 8 to 10 years. You’re replacing one bit that might fail with loads of other bits that might fail.

    I think people aren’t understanding how inefficient hydrogen is. Especially with the suggestion that hydrogen somehow is better than EVs, despite hydrogen cars often still having all the EV tech in a car.