Is Hydrogen a viable option for our Automotive Future ?

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  @AndyGardner-z6e · 1 year ago

  Sold out!!!!!!!!

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  @solentbum · 1 year ago

  A small problem with Hydogen power , at this time, is cost. I have been reading and hearing about Hydrogen power for the past 50 years, yes 50 years, the principle for using the gas is well known , but still the price point for clean Hydrogen is too high. It may be that the promised breakthrough in Fission electrcal generation will occur, (again I have been waiting for 50 years) but until we have very cheap eletricity to spare the future will still be BEV, or other electric power trains. Producing Hydrogen that is not pollution free in its process is a non starter. &nbsp;<br>The world wide requirement is for non polluting vehicle power. be they BEV Trams , Trolley buses, pantograph lorries etc. Priced and available for the masses. <br>Not once was the real world cost mentioned in this video, very interesting though is is.

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  @slloyd6577 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The biggest challenge facing low emission hydrogen is that it is expensive to produce, expensive to transport, expensive to store, expensive to distribute, and expensive to use. Whether you&apos;re switching existing users to clean hydrogen or pushing hydrogen into sectors where it&apos;s not currently used, it takes money - and lots of it. (extract from the &quot;Cleaning it up&quot; podcast). Countries have spent wasted millions on hydrogen as a fuel.

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  @martynb9 · 1 year ago

  Also the amount of energy it takes to create hydrogen you might as cut out the middle man and stick it in a car battery

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  @tomcockcroft9394 · 1 year ago

  Notice how they never mention the range

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  @maz2044 · 1 year ago

  Guys we’re in 2025 this feels so tomorrows world from the 1970s…

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  @gordonmackenzie4512 · 1 year ago

  Hydrogen fuel cell cars have been around for over a decade. Honda had the clarity. Toyota had the Mirai, which is now on generation 2. The problem was always the lack of fuelling stations to fill up with hydrogen. There is one in my small city, but it’s in the bus depot and used for their own buses.

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  @davesound7188 · 1 year ago

  Hydrogen for cars is a nonstarter. You very briefly talked about how it can be produced but completely skirted over the emissions problems with that process. <br>If viewers want to find out more about the problem with Hydrogen I would suggest watching this video:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EA4tDYwNYo">https://youtu.be/2EA4tDYwNYo?si=ttjt5nUCW8uoguMp</a><br><br>The next Porsche Cayman is going to be electric btw.

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  @PaulDee-k4p · 1 year ago

  Hydrogen production can be anything but clean to produce. The only method of production that is clean is via electricity but the ammout of electricity you use to make it is close if not more than the calorific/energy content of the hydrogen. In those terms the H2 is basically a battery and the other methids of procution have waste products like CO2 so hardly green. The last problem is the lack of infrastructure out there to use H2. I understand that the existing number of places you can fill up with H2 in the UK has actually dropped so the early backers have already started leaving the concept. The many many billions needed to deploy significant numbers of H2 filling stations are much better used elsewhere. An interesting concept but I feel doomed in it&apos;s everyday usefulness thanks to the lack of working infrastructure to help it work.

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  @bill_heywood · 1 year ago

  I had a look last night, there were 3 hydrogen fuelling points for cars available in the UK - London, Sheffield, Aberdeen. Anyone promoting hydrogen as a fuel for cars is either a fool, or a fossil shill. They almost never own a hydrogen powered car and if they do, they have more practical vehicles to actually use daily

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  @fishtigua · 1 year ago

  In the Marine Industry we too are looking at alternative fuels. Heavy Oils are mostly used at sea on big ships, that muck that belches out black smoke you can see from Space. Only when the ship comes close to the coast do they switch to light fuel-oil to look clean. All the EV cars on Planet Earth can&apos;t cover the pollution 1000 ships on passage. This is why we are looking at Ammonia, a richly dense fuel full of Hydrogen. Basically similar power plants we use today can be remade as compatible.

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  @charlesholder8009 · 1 year ago

  I once suggested you would change from Petrol Ped to Electro Ped but how about Hydro Ped?

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