More likely I'm thinking the recent developments and announcements are coinciding with investors who are simply trying to drum up more interest.
Frankly, I feel like hydrogen is less of a dead end than trying to min-max and optimize on the electric car batteries. Especially when we still have multiple hurdles to overcome when it comes to expanding our options with energy storage.
You're right that hydrogen is less of a dead end than Lithium batteries. The problem is, the whole thing with fossil fuel bans is meant to be a dead end for individual mobility. We're not going to be zooming around in affordable personal vehicles that can go 1000km on a small 5kg tank of fuel that's easily swapped or refilled in 60 seconds, we're not meant to - we're meant to sit in our bugpods and consume metaproduct while slowly dying of malnutrition despite being horrifically obese.
Eeeeh, sure, but even the 12V/55Ah lead battery in my 15 years old ICE car could power a camera and a 4G transmitter for a few months and still hold enough charge to start the engine. It's not something that's exclusive to EVs, you could do that with any new car.
Yeah it can be done if you specifically set out to make a battery-powered camera. You can't just turn a normal car on to standby and have it last long. Especially not if you're running facial recognition on the car's computer.
If you're on a 4 year old lead battery you're going to notice and care if it's drawing a dozen watts all the time, but with an EV you won't even notice a .1 kWh drain.
More likely I'm thinking the recent developments and announcements are coinciding with investors who are simply trying to drum up more interest.
Frankly, I feel like hydrogen is less of a dead end than trying to min-max and optimize on the electric car batteries. Especially when we still have multiple hurdles to overcome when it comes to expanding our options with energy storage.
You're right that hydrogen is less of a dead end than Lithium batteries. The problem is, the whole thing with fossil fuel bans is meant to be a dead end for individual mobility. We're not going to be zooming around in affordable personal vehicles that can go 1000km on a small 5kg tank of fuel that's easily swapped or refilled in 60 seconds, we're not meant to - we're meant to sit in our bugpods and consume metaproduct while slowly dying of malnutrition despite being horrifically obese.
Also electric cars are Always On. They have so much energy stored they can record video and send it to the feds for months even when not plugged in.
Eeeeh, sure, but even the 12V/55Ah lead battery in my 15 years old ICE car could power a camera and a 4G transmitter for a few months and still hold enough charge to start the engine. It's not something that's exclusive to EVs, you could do that with any new car.
Yeah it can be done if you specifically set out to make a battery-powered camera. You can't just turn a normal car on to standby and have it last long. Especially not if you're running facial recognition on the car's computer.
If you're on a 4 year old lead battery you're going to notice and care if it's drawing a dozen watts all the time, but with an EV you won't even notice a .1 kWh drain.