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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I dunno, everything I've always seen on it made it seem like a hyper-specific solution that's more suited to a few edge cases that could have their specific infrastructure.

For the average consumer, the recharging of EVs is actually Not A Big Deal™️. It seemed like one at first. Now all it does is ensure I take hourly short breaks which I should have been doing anyways, basically. The only big upside of Hydrogen is the ability to refill very quickly, but you pay with a whole bunch of downsides like inefficient generation, inefficient transportation, secondary infrastructure, energy inefficiency, etc.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You also can’t fill up at home!

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Hydrogen also only manages fast refills with a break between vehicles. If you try and fill a lot of cars in a row like gas pumps do, you have to wait much longer while it compresses and cools the hydrogen.

So the number of hydrogen pumps you need to support fuel cell EVs winds up being similar to the number of fast chargers BEVs need, and hydrogen pumps are very expensive.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Those "edge cases" are major industrial processes that drive the modern industrial economy. Like steel making and ammonia production.

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