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Lol Vendizlla, Give it up already.
No, it's worse. It's a little better than a gas car but not nearly close to being good as electric. And by the way, a Hydrogen car IS an electric car. The hydrogen gas is converted to electricity to turn an electric motor to move the car.
Why yes it does! Good for you! So does a battery-powered electric car. However the emissions during the CREATION and REFINEMENT of Hydrogen Gas pollutes more than creating electricity.
A Tesla can be "filled" in 30 minutes, by plugging it in at home or at any location anywhere, and oh yeah doesn't require a tank full of explosive Hydrogen which is only available in very few locations at this time. The infrastructure for electricity exists "right here, right now", which is not true for Hydrogen. Also, electricity can be derived from several sources that power your grid such as Hydro, Nuclear, Coal, Natrual Gas and Wind. Again not true for Hydrogen.
Neither is a Tesla. And if you want range, consider a Chevy Volt. It's an "extended Range" car as opposed to a hybrid. It gets about 50 miles to a charge on electricity and the gas engine kicks in to extend that range. A charge plus tank of gas (at only $30) gives you over 600 miles. AND, the infrastructure is again already in place for both gas and electric.
Completely wrong. 95 percent of America's hydrogen is produced from natural gas and alot of it comes from Shale and Fracking which I hope you already know are extremely problematic and throw out alot of pollution. The process is called steam methane reformation, high temperature and pressure break the hydrocarbon into hydrogen and carbon oxides ? including carbon dioxide, which is released into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas.
Hydrogen can also be made from good old-fashioned electrolysis but the problem here is that it still takes more energy to create than you get back.
In or around 2020, the next generation of nuclear power plants will "burn" much hotter than current plants do and they will be able to reach temperatures high enough to produce hydrogen (adding steam and heat to the electrolysis process.
But lets say Vendy you argue with all of the above, fine. Knock yourself out. There's also the problem of STORING Hydrogen. At room temperature and pressure, hydrogen's density is so low that it contains less than one-three-hundredth the energy in an equivalent volume of gasoline. So to move it and store it, you need to either Liquify it by super-cooling it (which takes alot of energy), or compress it.
8 Kilograms of hydrogen can take a car about 300 miles but it has to be compressed to 10,000 PSI in order to "fit" in the tank of a car. Do you really want to drive around with a tank compressed like that?
And EVEN IF you argue with this too, you still have to transport the gas. You can send it by big trucks or put it on big trains or you can pipe it through pipelines. WHAT THE FUCK? All of the above pollutes, and is expensive, and is dangerous. All completely unnecessary when you have your trusty electric outlet in your garage.
I would not. My current gas car is my last gas car. I'm putting it up for sale and going for a Tesla or a Chevy Volt. Gasoline for trucks and other big rigs, and maybe SUV's, sure. But for cars? Not any more.
This used to be true of me, but not any more. Here in eastern Canada there are electric charging stations everywhere, and there's even many that are now free to use. A Tesla will take me 300 miles before needing a charge, and a Chevy Volt will take me even further. Neither car gives me any "range anxiety" anymore. All you need to do is calculate how far your daily commute is. If you have to go a couple of hundred miles a day then Electric isn't for you for sure. But if your commute is shorter, Electric is a fantastic option.
And way WAY better than Hydrogen (which by the way, is being pushed by Shell and the other big oil companies, just in case you didn't know).
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