The losses converting it and re-converting it back to electricity by the fuel cell drastically eats up any losses from the simple chemical or mechanical battery alternative.
The entire point is that you get something in return. Electric vehicles are great, but you can't stop at a electricity station for 3 minutes, fill your batteries up, and then drive for another 300 miles. With hydrogen, you can theoretically do that. Hydrogen is a replacement for gasoline, not a replacement for electricity.
That's why the conduit. Why convert electricity to and from hydrogen when batteries both simplify and (in most cases) improve the efficiency?
Because efficiency isn't the factor that needs to be considered.
Exactly! When one further postulates that advancements in either take market share away from gassers, you can see why what happened happened the way it happened. Battery cars were essentially put on hold for 8 years, so as not to impact Detroit profits.
Battery cars were being developed in Detroit, and sold. I'm missing the cut into profit those electric cars created. Why would it be any different when batteries where more expensive and had less energy density?
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The entire point is that you get something in return. Electric vehicles are great, but you can't stop at a electricity station for 3 minutes, fill your batteries up, and then drive for another 300 miles. With hydrogen, you can theoretically do that. Hydrogen is a replacement for gasoline, not a replacement for electricity.
That's why the conduit. Why convert electricity to and from hydrogen when batteries both simplify and (in most cases) improve the efficiency?
Because efficiency isn't the factor that needs to be considered.
Exactly! When one further postulates that advancements in either take market share away from gassers, you can see why what happened happened the way it happened. Battery cars were essentially put on hold for 8 years, so as not to impact Detroit profits.
Battery cars were being developed in Detroit, and sold. I'm missing the cut into profit those electric cars created. Why would it be any different when batteries where more expensive and had less energy density?