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I've kind of had the feeling for a while that electric cars will be the compact fluorescent of the automotive world. It's a solution that will solve problems and be more effective than the old - until the better thing comes along.

I've kind of had the feeling for a while that electric cars will be the compact fluorescent of the automotive world. It's a solution that will solve problems and be more effective than the old - until the better thing comes along.

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Hydrogen power has been studied and it sucks. Smallest molecule that's hard to keep contained. Sorry, it's not a solution.

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Neither is electric really, unless we can figure out a way to get a lot more power into the car a lot quicker.

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Neither is electric really, unless we can figure out a way to get a lot more power into the car a lot quicker.

Electric had it's day before the internal combustion engine was perfected. The only way they will replace IC engine with electric cars is by FORCE. If they were better they'd already be dominant.

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Massive supercapacitor banks would be idea for electric cars, but they suffer from high prices and the massive spark you'd get from instant discharge (accident, etc.)

Gasoline is going to be king for a long time.

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The Hyundai Ioniq 5 can add 68 miles of range in 5 minutes; 210 miles in 18 minutes. Not as fast as gas, but not bad. Charging speed is only a factor if you're driving more than 300 miles without a break.

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Charging speed is only a factor if you're driving more than 300 miles without a break.

Which people do all the time. Nobody wants to drive 80 miles, then have to stop for ten minutes, and so on, and so on. And come on, you know that ten minutes would turn into twenty minutes, or thirty minutes, if there was any kind of hold up.

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Assuming you have a charging station or some other means to charge it.

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Yep. Hydrogen is energy storage, not energy source. Most hydrogen comes from processing fossil fuels (most LNG). It is expensive and brings with it its own set of issues. It is not a viable alternative to gas or diesel.

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The only thing more volatile than lithium mixing with H2O is H. It saves the step of reacting with the water and exploding. There was a ship called Hindenburg. Check it out.

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Hydrogen-driven vehicles kind of work, just as electric vehicles kind of work. Neither works as well as gasoline-driven vehicles. By casting aside the best option and adopting one that is not as good, we shoot ourselves in the foot as a nation. It's stupid, pointless, and unnecessary. There is no shortage of oil. If there ever were to develop a shortage in the future -- a real shortage, not a fake, artificially-generated shortage -- we would move to some other power source in a natural and organic way, as the need arose. There would be no reason to push this, it would happen by itself. Trying to push such a change where it is not needed, and where it is a disadvantage, is insane.