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Originally Posted by The Chemist
Considering the world's largest auto market (China) is going battery electric in a big way, I have much higher confidence that the technological hurdles of batteries can be overcome. Not to mention that when electric cars take off, installation of car chargers in apartment complex parking areas and other public areas will follow, as it has in Shanghai (there are about 20 chargers available in my apartment complex alone).
Hydrogen will always be less energy efficient than batteries because you have to use electricity to obtain it, and then more energy to compress it to a high enough pressure for use, whereas batteries do not require these intermediate steps. There are also the safety issues related to carrying high pressure gas in every vehicle on the road (hydrogen cars need to have hydrogen pressurized to over 3000psi) as well as the explosive nature of hydrogen.
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You are thinking like a Canadian and not taking into account the true realities oh how 90% of this planet live their lives. This idea of a nice suburban house to plug in your car is simply a new-world Western reality.
Relatively very people live in a SFH, even in Europe or Japan. As far as putting plug-ins in parking garages that is impossible for all but a very few. As I stated I live in a 7 year old modern Western condo and we don't have plug-ins and to put them in would mean everyone gets it with a substantial repair bill on their condo fees...…….no thanks.
Hydrogen is the ONLY option and will be the fuel that powers our cars for the next 100 years. It is the ONLY option that allows us to have what we have been accustomed to and expect from out vehicles...……..the ability to drive where ever and when ever we want and being able to gas up in 3 minutes.