| This sounds promising for hydrogen fuel cell powered cars 10:08 - Apr 18 with 655 views | StokieBlue |
A new material has been developed which an store more hydrogen at lower pressures and thus costs a lot less to manufacture.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52328786
The usual case made for hydrogen fuel cell cars is they can use the existing infrastructure (petrol stations etc) and can be refuelled in minutes rather than hours. Obviously there would be an industry around creating the hydrogen which might not be ideal given the petrol companies are likely to corner it.
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| This sounds promising for hydrogen fuel cell powered cars on 10:16 - Apr 18 with 621 views | bluelagos |
The hyundai rep when I was looking at a car showed me their latest offering on a hydrogen car. Was awesome - albeit at £70k way out of range for us mere mortals. He was really confident that would be the future as opposed to electric cars.
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| This sounds promising for hydrogen fuel cell powered cars on 10:20 - Apr 18 with 616 views | StokieBlue |
| This sounds promising for hydrogen fuel cell powered cars on 10:16 - Apr 18 by bluelagos |
The hyundai rep when I was looking at a car showed me their latest offering on a hydrogen car. Was awesome - albeit at £70k way out of range for us mere mortals. He was really confident that would be the future as opposed to electric cars.
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I think it makes more sense provided:
- Production of hydrogen can be scaled up and not monopolised
- Production of hydrogen is carbon-neutral
- The costs come down to the same as a regular car (this is possible)
- Governments get behind it with scrappage schemes to get people to switch
Japan have long felt hydrogen was a better route to the extent the government have subsidised all their car companies to do research on it.
Benefits are obvious:
- No emissions (just water - assuming carbon neutrality)
- Quicker refuelling so much larger ranges, basically like a normal car
- Less lithium reliance
- Easy to convert existing infrastructure from petrol to hydrogen (petrol stations)
I think we will need to wait and see. It certainly could be the way forward though.
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| This sounds promising for hydrogen fuel cell powered cars on 10:25 - Apr 18 with 604 views | hampstead_blue |
I was at Burnaston, Toyota UK Manufacturing plant, late last year.
Toyota have a fleet of hydrogen cars ready for the Olympics - whenever that will be.
They are investing heavily in hydrogen and as the largest car manufacturer in the world, that speaks volumes.
The training facility there has a huge hydrogen capability and they are so excited about it.
I just wish their interior components procurement team would find better materials and they design something interesting!
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| This sounds promising for hydrogen fuel cell powered cars on 11:07 - Apr 18 with 571 views | Basuco |
Sounds very good and much better than battery power at the moment, until the range and time to charge the battery powered family priced cars improves significantly. Also the revamped pits at Le Mans have a hydrogen fuel line planned as well, so we will see what a racing hydrogen engine can do as well. |  | | |
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