Jamie in Chile
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Don't agree with this. So, first of all, I should concede that it is true that a hydrogen vehicle powered by hydrogen produced from electrolysis is cleaner than an electric vehicle overall probably because of the impact of production of batteries. Therefore, if everyone in the world was determined to make the most ethical car imaginable regardless of cost, we probably would go down the hydrogen route.electric cars are the wrong path. There isn't enough lithium nor other requisite metals to make enough batteries to replace the needed number of vehicles. On top of that, those metals are horrible for the environment, both during extraction and disposal. We really need to go to hydrogen storage with hydrogen combustion. Iron, carbon, aluminum, all abundant and completely recyclable. Plus some biodegradable plant plastics for seals and what not. With those you can make everything from the power plant of a car to the very electrodes (carbon) used to electrolysis the water. Just power the hydrogen production and storage with solar, wind, other renewables... No nasty batteries needed. And no need to cross your fingers on John B Goodenough's newest battery tech.
However, at the moment most hydrogen is actually produced from fossil fuels and electricity from electrolysis using renewable energy is currently four times more expensive.
Also, hydrogen cars in terms of infrastructure and technology are way, way behind. For the foreseeable future, it is only electric cars or petrol/diesel cars, therefore I think we should support electric cars as by far the least bad option of the three. In reality, opposing electric cars leads to more petrol and diesel car sales at the moment, and therefore more climate change and pollution. In fact, promoting hydrogen cars is actually a preferred tactic of oil companies presumably because they know it isn't going to happen for now and it's therefore a way to indirectly get more petrol car sales made while pretending to advocate for clean hydrogen.