• endhits@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re still electric cars at their base. They just use a hydrogen reactor in lieu of a battery to power the motors.

    I don’t see a future where hydrogen supplants electric cars, unless there’s some revolution in storage technology for it. In that case, progress in battery tech is more likely.

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      1 year ago

      Is there even a possibility of better storage tech for hydrogen? It’s not like batteries where you can use different elements in the battery out of different things. It has to store hydrogen. The processes surrounding that can be made more efficient, but the storage is just a physical limitation, not chemical.

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        1 year ago

        not really. It’s a gas. and a really low density one at that. physics is a bitch