Hydrogen is more environmentally friendly than typical batteries plus batteries have a shelf life which can never be changed as it's part of the natural degradation process.
Firstly there's the range. A typical EV battery degrades over time and so the range the car can drive drops after as little as a year or two. Now say you have a range of 130 miles, than means you can travel 65 miles one way, but will struggle to drive the 65 miles home again without suffering from range anxiety. Then there's the winter, it's 5 pm and you're stuck in an hours traffic jam on a bridge, it's snowing so you have the heater on, you're also carrying two passengers so the added weight to carry means your battery range has dropped even more due to basic physics. There's the price of insurance, some EV's are costing over £5K and some insurers have now stopped insuring them. There's repair bills as well, you can't just take yr EV to a local garage and they can fix it - nope, you need to go to the dealers and get the car transported so even more expense. There's the time to charge, say you travel 100 miles and you want to drive home the same day - now you need to add an extra 2/3 hours onto your day to use a fast charger (which further degrades the battery). These are just a few reasons, but you get the picture. There's lots of bad points about EV's. Also if you did have solar at home, you'd be better using the energy you created to sell back to the grid or use for running your home.
Methane gives of CO2 when you burn it, so you are just as well using petrol.Methane gas would be better, since everybody's full of
NOT SO GREEN IF PROCESS TO OBTAIN HYDROGEN is through electricity generated from coal, oil or nuclear plant.
I guess we need to build hydrogen powerplants then!
Where do you think the energy comes from to make and power battery vehicles? How much energy do you think would be required to charge the 300 million vehicles in the USA (never mind some states such as california already suffer from power outages without all the EV's being added into the mix)
just u have to drive to the other side of town to refuel hydrogen is already enough to scrap the idea of owning a hydrogen car, good luck to you if u are on road and intended to find a fuel station in a less populated area. Beside hydrogen a highly dangerous element, just a single car crash would lead to a chained explosion, i would never put my and family's ass in a 4 wheeled hydrogen bomb.
The grid needs to be updated anyway. Also, what agenda would clean energy people have to have, to be specifically anti-hydrogen? Lol
That's a good point, but they could find battery technology that doesn't significantly degrade in a person life time. It also depends on what future materials they use and how recyclable they are, with how much environmental impact they will have.
I never actually thought of this. Batteries might actually be safer in the long run, with the right materials.
No mention about the price. It doesn't matter if it charges instantly or if it completely eliminates the need for a driver, as long as you have to put yourself into debt slavery for decades to actually buy such a car, I'm out.
It's good to see someone with common sense. Also I'd bet that keeping that car for longer is doing more good for the planet than getting a new EV every 2 years or so. If everyone got a car and kept it for 20 years that would probably be a lot better, use less resources and energy to make and you wouldn't have small kids working long hours in mines so that eco zealots can sniff their own farts.
I saw a pretty ingenious hydrogen refuelling station that simply had a roof covered in solar panels. During the day the tanks refilled with hydrogen through electrolysis of water, with the waste product being oxygen. No built-in battery required - all the energy from the panel just gets dumped into water straight away. The problem is that such stations could only operate in areas where cloud coverage isn’t an issue - they’d never be efficient enough for where I live. That being said, for all intents and purposes you could install one on your own property, with as many panels as you like. Right now, for someone like me, a hybrid is much more convenient and reliable. My missus and I don’t have to worry about running out of juice in the middle of a drive, the petrol engine simply kicks in and the battery gets topped up via regenerative braking and whenever we’re just cruising. Most of the area is 20 MPH speed limited anyway, so the electric motor gets as much use if not more than the petrol engine.
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they need to have a strong line up on the launch titles too. I think they should move metroid...
