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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
The process of electrolysis requires energy. The trick is how much energy is required to make a tank of hydrogen for a car, what is the source of that energy, and what is its carbon footprint including production and delivery.
Personally I don't see Hydrogen being very popular but I could be wrong. If it becomes popular though, then fantastic! It will be yet another green alternative to oil and gas, and that's what's really important.
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I don't think it will come down to being "another". I think only one will be the winner.
NYC had an entire FLEET of Electric Taxis in the 1800's:
"The first taxicab company in New York City was the Samuel's Electric Carriage and Wagon Company (E.C.W.C.), which began running 12 electric hansom cabs in July 1897"
Then Rockefellar paid scientists to find uses for the "waste" that they were dumping by the millions of gallons from production of kerosene...and one of those uses was the combustion engine and the "waste" was gasoline.
So this new cheap and powerful energy source became THE thing for cars.
Yes, right now we have some electric vehicles and plenty of gas vehicles being produced.
But in the end...it will come down to one of them being predominant.
Both industry's know that.
One will become the Sony Betamax. The other will be the VHS tape. (just an analogy)
I think the Hydrogen industry is trying to get in on this too before it gets set in stone.
So oil will be fighting off electric and hydrogen.
And in a decade or two...we will either have: Gas stations everywhere like we do now, Hydrogen Fuel Centers, or super fast charging stations.
And car manufacturers will take it down to producing ONE of these to cut costs and re-tooling.
That's the stakes. And they are very high. The winner will be THE industry.