Hydrogen is a gas, you can use pipes to transport it. My city is currently building out hydrogen pipes for industrial users. It’s a little annoying because they put the pipes under the bike lanes and the bike lanes aren’t useable during construction.
But energy density is still an issue for cars. The hydrogen needs to be compressed down to a liquid for a car to have a decent range. But compressing hydrogen costs energy. Plus the fact that making hydrogen costs more energy than the produced hydrogen can give back. You might as well use that energy to charge a battery EV instead and waste less energy.
Hydrogen for industrial use makes sense for personal vehicles not so much.
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Hydrogen is a gas, you can use pipes to transport it. My city is currently building out hydrogen pipes for industrial users. It’s a little annoying because they put the pipes under the bike lanes and the bike lanes aren’t useable during construction.
But energy density is still an issue for cars. The hydrogen needs to be compressed down to a liquid for a car to have a decent range. But compressing hydrogen costs energy. Plus the fact that making hydrogen costs more energy than the produced hydrogen can give back. You might as well use that energy to charge a battery EV instead and waste less energy.
Hydrogen for industrial use makes sense for personal vehicles not so much.
Yeah, but hydrogen cars exist, I’m not defending them, just saying that you don’t need trucks hauling the hydrogen around.