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Originally Posted by jad03060
If the green energy starts to take off, producing hydrogen with excess will become dirt cheap, and fuel cells will become much more common.
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I would be willing to bet just about any amount of money that hydrogen and fuel cells will never become common or affordable for vehicle applications.
1) Converting electricity to hydrogen you lose energy. Then converting hydrogen back into useful electricity via a fuel cell, you lose even more energy. You end up wasting 2/3 of your energy thru multiple conversions.
2) Hydrogen refueling stations will never make sense because it is really tough to store and transport hydrogen.
3) nobody wants to have pressurized hydrogen storage tanks on their car during an accident.
We will see how the market votes on EVs vs Hydrogen fuel cell cars. But so far nobody is even remotely close to doing hydrogen. It has been 10 years in the future for the past 40 years.