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The author concluding this, doesn't make it so. And his conclusions are linking to another article, claiming current h2 cost and production means the future will be the same.

Which is the same as claiming we'd never have solar now, because solar was expensive years ago.

The article also says South Korea is full bore on h2, so this will have a market, and thrive there.

BEV doesn't have the capacity to do this. These units cannot be charged for 1hr 4 times a day. H2 is an instant recharge.



In practice, hydrogen cars take significantly longer than gas cars to fill, and the filling station can’t have a high duty cycle because the nozzle will freeze to the car. (Ideal gas law means the hydrogen cools as it goes from high pressure to low pressure.)

Synthesizing fuels from CO2, water, and electricity seems like a better solution. It works with existing infrastructure and doesn’t have the storage or safety issues of hydrogen.


H2 is not instant, it is a pressurised gas. Recharging h2 vehichles is as fast as the pressure difference between the intermediate tank and the vehichle tank.


Nitpicking. Nothing is truly instant. Gasoline isn't truely instant either, yet people refer to it as so.

The many different makes ans models of H2 cars recharge instantly by this metric, and so will this.


The Toyota Mirai can take up to 30 minutes to refill.


It's rated for 3 to 5 minutes. I can find slow gas pumps too.




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