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Originally Posted by ssiguy
I think it's you that doesn't have the understanding of physics or economics.
Electrolysis is just one way of producing hydrogen as you can also do so with oil and NG and still be nearly emissions free.
Hydrogen from electricity requires a country to be self-sufficient in electricity while hydrogen simply requires you to have working ports.
As I stated, countries didn't adopt ICE vehicles because they had the oil to fuel them but rather because they had other countries that could do it for them and the same is true with hydrogen.
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Producing the hydrogen is not the hard (or expensive) part. Shipping and distributing it is.
Here's a simple experiment. Get on Google Maps and look up where the nearest hydrogen filling station is to your home. Compare that to where the nearest fast charger is. There's a difference in infrastructure, despite the fact that we're sitting in a G7 country. Imagine the difference in a developing country. And that's before we get into the fact that any outlet can be used to charge a BEV. The only difference is time.
But like I said earlier, the biggest driver in the developing world is going to be fleets. Diesel is expensive and battery electric buses and delivery vehicles keep coming down in price. This is why BYD is running around all over South America selling them electric buses. Their governments will happily spend even a bit more on a bus, if it means less imported fuel, which is a big cost to their economies.
https://dialogochino.net/en/climate-...latin-america/
And like I said, way more buses, taxis and jitneys than private vehicles in those places. Waiting a decade for hydrogen to mature while driving 30 000 - 70 000 km a year on imported diesel is expensive. If they have a business case to switch to something cheaper earlier, they aren't going to wait.