BMW says goodbye to electric cars. Shifts focus to hydrogen engines

It maybe bad news if your invested in Tesla EVs & Lithium Ion technology.

As for the climate & consumers, it's a win win.

Because it doesn't work. Hydrogen is very difficult to manage. It requires very high pressures, leaks directly through materials, and causes a lot of damage to materials. And while "green" hydrogen is theoretically possible, there is no infrastructure for it. Now, and for the foreseeable future, it's produced using fossil fuels.

If it were left at that, it would just be a technical problem. The real antipathy comes from the fact that hydrogen is being pushed by fossil fuel companies and others with a stake in battery-electric vehicles failing. It's not "merely wrong". It's deliberate disinformation, and that's infuriating.

> They should focus on straight forward hydrogen combustion engines.

Why would they? A combustion engine drive-train has an efficiency that's significantly lower than that of a fuel-cell EV drive-train. Combusting hydrogen in an ICE as opposed to oxidizing it in a fuelcell is just a waste of energy.

The headline is inaccurate and is meant as pure click bait.