03-05-2024, 02:20 AM
(03-04-2024, 09:16 PM)northernblue link Wrote:My understanding is that with ev you can buy or generate a KWh put it in your car and drive, that is your cost.
With Hydrogen you need 4-5 times the volume of electricity, that is its cost… currently.
It’s a long way behind.
Even if every petrol station in the country became a Hydrogen dispenser overnight, who would buy it at 4-5 times the cost of a volt ?
Assuming your figures are correct, they are only correct based on current market and current technologies.
Look at it from both directions. Eventually, EVs and the materials required to make them, will become scarce and supply and demand dictates those costs will increase.
Alternatively, through more R+D, hydrogen costs will come down once better tech is worked out.
On top of that, governments can dictate which direction we go by adding subsidies or taxes for or against certain techs to bridge that gap further.
If you think the government is going to lose out on the money it gets on taxing fuel because people are shifting towards EV, you're not thinking it through. As has been suggested elsewhere, there will be additional taxes brought in eventually, potentially due to weights of vehicles and the damage it does on roads.....EVs would cop it, hydrogen would not.
People need to look at the end game in all of this, not just 5 years from now.
Hydrogen will not run out.
Everything else will run out before then.
Its in our best interests to do everything we can do to use Hydrogen as much as possible, sooner or later, 'big money' will realise this,