Fast filling times are seductive, but they don’t compensate for H2’s many drawbacks.
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Finally, there’s virtually no infrastructure for hydrogen road vehicles to refuel.

    I would argue this is by far the biggest issue with hydrogen fuel. Other drawbacks could arguably be addressed with scale and additional work.

    It’s just that hydrogen actually kinda sucks as a fuel, and automaker Stellantis announced today that it is ending the development of its light-, medium- and heavy-duty FCEVs, which were meant to go into production later this year.

    Meant to go in production later this year? I doubt anyone at Stellantis believed this.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I would argue this is by far the biggest issue with hydrogen fuel. Other drawbacks could arguably be addressed with scale and additional work.

      That’s still the biggest problem with EVs. If the technology is sound, it shouldn’t matter - they’d be pushing it anyway.

      • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        29 days ago

        Is it? Every house in my neighborhood has a 240V power line running to it, with 100A service typical.

        There isn’t a single hydrogen fuel station in my entire state.

        Power delivery seems like basically a solved issue, Level 2 charging is attainable for practically all households with minimal personal investment; and Level 3 charging is mostly an investment in the physical stations to rectify AC to high voltage DC, the wires that carry the AC are already there.

  • Amuletta@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    I bought stocks of Ballard Power years ago when hydrogen cells were going to be The Next Big Thing. Not many stocks thankfully, because it slipped further and further and then got delisted. It seems to be one of those things like airships that gets revived every 20 years or so.