German auto giants place their bets on hydrogen cars

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2 pointsmardiyah2 comments

To be honest, I think this is feasible, although not yet economically viable. Batteries have comparatively large ecological costs which we cannot nail down yet, but billions of batteries would need to be recycled if electric cars become widly spread. Possible, but I think EV adaption has been disappointingly slow, not even mentioning missing charging stations.

Using a EV in Europe for larger trips (moderate trips compared to US standards) is currently fully possible. Navigation systems on board are tuned to find the next charging station, quite convenient as long as most people don't have EV themselves because in that case you might need to wait in line.

It's likely that batteries won't be the future of automobile at all. You're just replace one limited resource with another. People also forget that the world economy is still growing and therefore there will be far more cars in the future than today. Once you realize that we will need to build multiple billions of cars in the future, plus all of the associated infrastructure, it should be clear that batteries cannot scale to that level of demand. It would have to be something like hydrogen since hydrogen can be made from water.

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