On Apr 23, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Cor van de Water via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> [T]his industry has put it into law that you can get > credits for providing a zero-emission long range vehicle[....] I think it would make the contrast between BEVs and FCVs much starker if the requirement wasn't tailpipe emissions but well-to-wheel emissions. In that case, FCVs have little hope of competing, since basically all of the hydrogen comes from mined hydrocarbons with said carbon being released into the atmosphere before the hydrogen is delivered to the vehicle. BEVs, on the other hand, can be entirely solar powered -- and many of those on the road already are. The absolute best that a FCV can possibly hope for is to use solar power to analyze water and collect the hydrogen to power the car. Seen that way, it's obvious that the fool cell is in direct competition with a battery...and, given an hour of insolation on a square meter of panels, I just don't see a FCV going anywhere near as far on the resulting charge as a BEV. Maybe somebody else has done (or knows) the math and could put some hard numbers to it? I'd be willing to eat my words. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150423/8ed3891a/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
