Tesla Moving to Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power

[Stephen3141]

Elon Musk won’t make any more Tesla electrics: This will be the new fuel

Elon Musk's decision to pivot Tesla to hydrogen fuel cells may disrupt the automotive industry, but it also comes with rising costs and infrastructure challenges.

www.ecoticias.com

The article claims that Elon Musk will move to making vehicles powered by
hydrogen fuel cells, and leave the electric cars behind.

My comment is that although electric seemed a good move, as far as pollution goes,
electric vehicles are far too heavy, and lithium based batteries have all sorts of
supply problems.

Flyers of model planes could have told Elon this, if he had been willing to listen
to them.

 

[Bob Crowley]

He could work with the heavy transport industry and government to speed up the development of infrastructure. Hydrogen is suitable for heavy transport and buses, and they produce a lot of green house gases.

The road to decarbonization: Hydrogen in heavy-duty transport | Spectra

Hydrogen has the power to transform the transport sector, not least the heavy-duty trucks and buses that make up over a third of vehicle emissions.

spectra.mhi.com

Although trucks and buses represent only around 8% of vehicles, they are responsible for over a third of direct CO₂ emissions from road transport, and their emissions are still rising.

 

[Laodicean60]

I'm good with all the tech and maybe we'll choose the most efficient source. EVs are resource-intensive and inconvenient for travelers. I would love to see a miniature reactor, and then we could have flying Ubers.

 

[eleos1954]

Elon Musk won’t make any more Tesla electrics: This will be the new fuel

Elon Musk's decision to pivot Tesla to hydrogen fuel cells may disrupt the automotive industry, but it also comes with rising costs and infrastructure challenges.

www.ecoticias.com

The article claims that Elon Musk will move to making vehicles powered by
hydrogen fuel cells, and leave the electric cars behind.

My comment is that although electric seemed a good move, as far as pollution goes,
electric vehicles are far too heavy, and lithium based batteries have all sorts of
supply problems.

Flyers of model planes could have told Elon this, if he had been willing to listen
to them.

Yeah ... there are just too many problems involved with electric powered.

Here's an interesting article about using waste-to-hydorgen

HTWO Grid Solution | Innovation - Hyundai Worldwide

 

[Bob Crowley]

It's common to see Tesla electric vehicles around here now. Ive said before that I'm hoping that if we can still afford it (getting on in age and retired) that sufficient infrastructure will be in place for our next car (down the track) to be hydrogen fuelled.

They way I see it for the state of Queensland, the SE corner of the state has the bulk of the population and the Bruce Highway from Brisbane to Cairns carries most of the state's regional heavy transport, so they'd be the two areas to concentrate on first. The rest could be phased in later.

 

[Vambram]

Hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles is an idea that has been around for years. Hopefully, this alternate form of energy becomes developed to a point where it becomes available and affordable to the average person.