Hyundai has a Hydrogen Car
(www.hyundai-n.com)
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Hydrogen makes so much more sense than electric for cars
It really does. I don't want some stupid fucking battery bank that sucks in the winter and goes bad in 10yrs. And electric semi trucks?? Get the fuck outta here
The biggest criticism I think is energy cost to make hydrogen but Japan is building a nuclear/hydrogen plant combo that looked promising. They are going in on hydrogen and I'm glad someone is.
At least when it catches fire it only releases water vapor instead of toxic fluoride gas.
So the questions are:
Price point
Fueling/Refueling costs and efficiency
Environmental impact. Is it ACTUALLY less pollutive, or is it shoving the burden elsewhere with zero net difference or worse?
I'll agree to the first two. The environmental impact seems less important.
A nice car I can refuel easily at a decent price point would be awesome.
Between gasification and reforming it could potentially be pretty cheap (equivalent to $2/gallon) but they insist on using PVs to power electrolysis so it's more like $10 per gallon equivalent.
Yeah, this is my big question. Where is the hydrogen coming from and how much energy does it take to process, store, and transport it? Novel energy production tech is rarely efficient.
Price isn't really an issue because this is just a concept car anyway.
looks like ass. looks like that cybertruck "futuristic for the 1980s" style.
it's also a concept car which was revealed back in July
Hyundai has had 2 fuel cell vehicles in the past. ix35 FCEV & Nexo, with the Nexo still in production.
The Nexo is basically a hydrogen Tucson/Sportage except it costs twice as much. Cost is still a huge problem.
Someone mentioned it in another thread, and I thought it should get some spotlight.
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