Sounds like a solution looking for a problem. By the time this would get to production (and that includes electric cars that can use this technology) battery technology will have moved past this perceived charging time "problem". Already silicon anodes are providing 10 minute charge times, aluminium graphene batteries have tested past the 1 amp level and other technologies are well advanced. Five years time will be a completely different landscape.
No, you’re not missing anything. What is missing is the applications. Given the problems with hydrogen storage and transport, I’ve always assumed it will principally be a local solution. If that is the case, the fleets of hydrogen powered buses and taxis will need to come online at the same time as the local blue or green hydrogen plant and the economics of scaling up hydrogen production is going to be quite complicated.
That's a fair point. But that doesn't explain the low uptake of BEVs when 70% of the population can use them.
If you're prepared to go to a "garage" to fill up with hydrogen, then what's the difference between that and going to a garage to fill up a BEV with electricity?
2 million cars are bought every year in the UK. In the last 4 years one quarter of the total fleet was bought. There are only 1 million BEVs in that fleet. Something has to change.
But the huge majority cannot fill in 10 minutes they have to charge for a few hours.
Isn't that the same for ICEs as well?
Battery failure is (a) very rare with modern batteries and (b) guaranteed against for 8 years. Degradation is less than 3% per year, again with modern bateries. Not every EV is a 2011 Nissan Leaf. Tech isn't exactly new, LiOn and LifePo batteries are ubiquitous.
In order to generate the amount of fuel necessary to replace petrol/diesel, it would take over vast quantities of agricultural land we use to grow foodWhat’s wrong with biofuels, apart from the cost obviously
Damn! I thought it just needed the oil from my local chip shop.
