Perhaps the (very few) FCV owners out there can fart repeatedly to produce some hydrogen, since many of the stations aren’t.
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Nah! With new stations, we are doing fine. But if you need some stench to go with your fart app, I will make sure to eat an extra burrito..
Explain this to me.... why.... why not just use CNG? Ta
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That's the same thing as with BEVs. CNG was too easy, so let's do BEVs. Let's put millions of chargers and spend billions to solve some made up issue.
You are also stuck in TODAY, when I already said many times that it is a solution of the future. If we have plenty of renewable electricity that it has to be stored or curtailed, then splitting some water molecules is better. Today you are just seeing the technology maturity phase and trying to draw conclusions based on that.
I know right! It can take my Model S up to eight hours to fully charge if I've depleted it. And I miss it every single time because I'm asleep, and *PRESTO*, it's just "full" in the morning. Very upsetting.
Wow, so you are not charging the car with clean electrons flowing out of your solar panels? I was told differently by some pundits.
My answer was for CO2 reduction. Both EVs and FCEVs have point of use ZEV advantage, which no one disagrees.
EXACTLY! Unfortunately After driving for ~4 hours I'm forced to stop at a convenient point along my route, and have to spend 30-40 minutes supercharging while I eat. Too bad there's no option for me to drive 45 minutes each way off my main route in order to enjoy a 5 minute fill up. Provided the station isn't cycling. And isn't empty.
Tell me about it! In the 6-1/2 years I've had my BEV I've only been able to put on 150,000 miles of commutes, daily & weekend driving, and road trips. Totally impractical! And to think I thought that it would be worth it just because the operating/fueling expense is a fraction of my previous vehicle.
So you should go soothe the anger of owners in the range loss thread. They are pi**ed as hell because they feel they were lied about the 30 min charging. It will be easy for you to explain why slower charging is no issue at all. I mean, who doesn't want to hang around at super chargers for an extra hour or two with family & friends while on a long trip?
For the record, some FCEVs drivers have also put similar annualized miles as yours, even with the limited refueling network, just in CA.
Oh noes, H2 gang... major automaker
HONDA just
put hydrogen on hold!.
At the same time, diesel, hydrogen, and plug-in hybrids are on the way out. Katsushi Inoue, Honda Europe’s President, said.
“Maybe hydrogen fuel cell cars will come, but that’s a technology for the next era. Our focus is on hybrid and electric vehicles now.”
Honda works on second EV, quits diesel, and puts hydrogen on hold
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Funny. Honda already had a city EV, called Fit EV. Demand was so through the roof and they were making such a boatload of money, that they killed it few years back.
Let's hope people buy this one. The cane whipping of people by the European govts may keep this alive little longer than the Fit EV. If anything, city cars are what are most suitable for EVs.
Clarity BEV demand is also through the roof in US. It sold a grand total of 35 in just Sept. /s
Things are often not how they are made to look like.
But I am glad that Fred finally found something to write about fuel cell cars.
