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They are but it costs a fortune unless it is mass produced its not cost effective.Why are car manufacturers not really trying this technology. It is being used on some London Buses so why not cars?
Didn't someone invent a car that runs on water then suffered a mysterious death?Did I imagine this? @ProfessionalMackem
Why are car manufacturers not really trying this technology. It is being used on some London Buses so why not cars?
Lack of hydrogen network.
Easiest thing in the world to fix though
BP or Shell or a supermarket would merely need to fit one pump in every station, and its done.
Same for a standard sized ~100 mile battery swapout service - literally some lockers were you slot your battery in, and take a charged one out. They'd be selling lecky, which is piss easy to "build a network" of.
Not as easy as you make out.
The second idea, battery swap, has been tried and failed, it proved too expensive to establish in the chicken and egg game. Betterplace went bust owing investors billions.
They already did, ghosn at Nissan-Renault, the fluence and several other cars were built with swappable batteries that you could drive in to a car wash like building, it swaps your battery out and you drive on, took about 4 minutes, great idea, cost a fortune and failed. If you are interested look up a TED presentation by shai Agassi, it had me sold on it completely, I thought it was a superb idea, so did Israel who backed it heavily.Oh aye, not that easy.
But if one or more of the big car conglomerates throw in with a major oil company to build a standard replaceable battery (possibly in addition to extra non-removable ones), then the actual system to charge and pay is extremely simple.
Its all about the chicken and egg though, like you say. All depends on enough "standard & user-replaceable" batteries existing.
It would really need to be like how they agree on next gen discs - everyone would have to agree or it would be a pain in the arse - like it was with HD-DVD and Blu Ray
They already did, ghosn at Nissan-Renault, the fluence and several other cars were built with swappable batteries that you could drive in to a car wash like building, it swaps your battery out and you drive on, took about 4 minutes, great idea, cost a fortune and failed. If you are interested look up a TED presentation by shai Agassi, it had me sold on it completely, I thought it was a superb idea, so did Israel who backed it heavily.
I think the problem is not so much the fuel cell but extracting the hydrogen. It's one of the most if not the most common gas but is always attached to something. The technology isn't there yet to extract it on mass cheaply.
Loads of it in the sea. Loads of sea in the oceans. Windy, sunny and wavy at the coast.
Seems to me there solutions can all be found there.
How are you separating this abundance from the things it is attached to, and what energy source are you using for the process?