Honda opens first hydrogen fuel station

[thinfourth2]

DonkeyApple said:

thinfourth2 said:

A 30 minute stop in the middle of a 300mile drive isn't a disaster, service station bacon rolls are a disaster.

Hmmm. I'd prefer to stop in a field and grow my own bio fuel than go to some service stations.

You are right though that range is a mild issue and so is cost as well as basic logistics. .

But, having a short commute in London and also having the facility to recharge at night without any kind of ballache is a rarity.

But london is badly suited to electric cars as everyone lives in a cardboard box and driveways is something they have read about in a book.

Outside the M25 EVs make sense for alot of folk as they have driveways and a commute under 60 miles a day.

Judged by government figures 30%ish of houses in the UK have a driveway of some sort.

Where i live couldn't be more different from London but an EV would be perfect as a daily driver for ME

i know someone will turn up saying they do 150,000 miles a year so an EV would be useless for them. My landrover would also be useless for them doesn't mean a landrover is useless to everyone.

[JonnyVTEC]

Raize said:

So basically it's significantly more expensive than petrol.

171-litre fuel tank
= 35 gallons
280 mile range.

lol 8 MPG.
So petrol will need to be £10 a liter before this catches on. And that's still 20-30 years off.

Not really, why use MPG when you're talking about a compressible gas?

Does 55mile per Kg of H2.

Kg of H2 today is around $5. The problem of course is Hydrogen compared to a heavily taxed petrol isnt a massive difference.

Interestingly it takes about 60kWh to generate 1 Kg of H2..... To do 55 miles, a Leaf could do quadruple those miles on the same energy.