Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
I'm not so sure FCVs are an ally to EVs. Whether FCVs go away on their own or not, to build the infrastructure will cost billions and then billions more of subsidies to generate hydrogen at a competitive price. Once that infrastructure exists, it is a beast, not an ally.
I agree. In 2000, fuel cell vehicles were loudly promoted as the way to *replace* battery electric vehicles. The auto and oil industry used them to suck all the funding *away* from battery research and development.
In fact, every time EVs begin to get serious press, and rising numbers of EVs manage to get out on the roads, fuel cells get trotted out *again* as a replacement. "We don't need EVs; why, in just a few more years, we'll have fuel cell vehicles perfected!"
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