Reading the article, it sounds like they're focusing hydrogen for heavy goods vehicles while EV for private 'light' vehicles.
It'd be better if it was ALL hydrogen as it's an effective source of energy but I suppose if you work out a way to use it for all vehicles while effectively store and produce it at home, it's harder to justify why the west should give a fuck about anywhere else.
I found a writeup once of someone who built a solar hydrogen power generation system for his home. He had to use multiple 500 gallon propane tanks (which wasn't ideal because they apparently were "leaky" to hydrogen, but it was the only thing he could reasonably find to use) to store all the hydrogen he needed for the system.
But if you lived in the woods somewhere in the middle of nowhere, that kind of thing might work pretty well.
Reading the article, it sounds like they're focusing hydrogen for heavy goods vehicles while EV for private 'light' vehicles.
It'd be better if it was ALL hydrogen as it's an effective source of energy but I suppose if you work out a way to use it for all vehicles while effectively store and produce it at home, it's harder to justify why the west should give a fuck about anywhere else.
producing hydrogen at home is indeed very easy, the problem is producing enough and compressing it to be viable.
I found a writeup once of someone who built a solar hydrogen power generation system for his home. He had to use multiple 500 gallon propane tanks (which wasn't ideal because they apparently were "leaky" to hydrogen, but it was the only thing he could reasonably find to use) to store all the hydrogen he needed for the system.
But if you lived in the woods somewhere in the middle of nowhere, that kind of thing might work pretty well.
Hydrogen is very leak prone and worse it makes metals that it's exposed to brittle (hydrogen embrittlement).
It's not as simple as it sounds on the surface.