AlexC
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Indeed market forces will decide. Battery energy density is already in low volume at 500wh/kg, double currently used. When that becomes the norm, cars will have 4-500 mile range, exactly that of petrol. Density will then move to 800-1000wh/kg within a decade. Thus 1kg in weight is 1KW energy. Prices have dropped enormously, and will hit $50 kw/hr in 2025 making average battery pack cost $2-300, way less than an ICE / HEV engine. Thus HEV will never happen and you can bet mortgage on it!A lot depends where the hydrogen comes from, At the moment it mainly comes from fossil fueled powered electricity.
Yes Andrew Forrest is pushing green hydrogen, and converting it to ammonia for easy storage. But he's mainly interested in iron ore production.
Anything is possible these days, I guess market forces will make the final decision.
Exactly, it’s a mythical solution to keep ICE and the oil industry in business by slowing down EVs with misinformation. China is showing them the door.Robert Llewellyn interviewed a physics professor a couple of years ago on Fully Charged, and he gave very good, practical reasons why hydrogen is a bad idea and will only ever be a niche market.
The oil industry is promoting it as an answer to all our worries because they want to carry on drilling for fossil fuels when we all stop buying petrol and deisel.