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Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds (thedriven.io)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok calm down, you don't need to be condescending.

I know that right now hydrogen production is really not efficient compared to simply recharging a battery. Producing hydrogen takes more electricity to produce from water electrolysis to fuel a car for the same range as it would take to simply charge a battery. This I am aware of. And that's what I was implying in my previous comment.

However, a small hydrogen cell powered car has at least twice the range of a similar sized EV. And also, it doesn't take hours to recharge. Only a few minutes to refill the hydrogen tank.

What I hope it that we one day find a way to efficiently produce hydrogen. Because I'd rather have to wait a couple of minutes to refuel on a long trip than having to stop for an hour every time I need to recharge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We have a more efficient way to produce hydrogen, which is using nagural gas. That's obviously a bad idea. You can't change the laws of physics, producing hydrogen from water and electricity just takes that much energy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah I know that. That's why initially I was saying it would be great if we found a better more efficient way to produce it. Obviously hinting at the fact that it wasn't the case right now.