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There's plenty of coverage of the hydrogen fuel cell car on this blog. This is a bit of an update. Not that there's a whole lot of new stuff to report. There's a few nuggets of info here worth mentioning.
Evidently they've got the cost of fuel cell cars down a bit. The video says that Honda can sell one for $65k. For yours truly, that's a lot of buckos. Actually, a Tesla could run not too much less than that. But it is quite a bit better than some of the numbers that used to be cited--- hundreds of thousands of dollars is too rich for just about everybody except billionaires.
The other info is the cost of hydrogen. For some reason, it seems HIGHER now. Well, that's a shock ( no pun intended). One idea is to use cows to generate the hydrogen. It says that a cow can produce enough hydrogen to last one car for one year. So it's mileage is one cow per year? Still, that would be a lot of cows for the cars. If there's a hundred million cars, you'd need a hundred million cows. It seems like a niche idea. Nobody likes cows that much.
The guy making the video has no ideas of his own. He's just reporting on what's out there. He says there's no way to transport the hydrogen. Yeah, there's a way. It is called ammonia. Ammonia can hold the hydrogen, and it can be cracked for the hydrogen at the fueling station. No problem.
So the problem is still the cost factors. He claims that Honda will outcompete Tesla for the electric car market with their fuel cell cars. Maybe. I've not been a fan of battery powered cars, but one thing that Elon Musk has figured out is to get economies of scale going for him. By the time they get the tech figured out for fuel cells, he will own the EV market.
Anyway, here's the video...
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