Hydrogen is the future, not BEVs?

Hydrogen is the future, not BEVs?

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Lexington59

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Monday 30th November 2020
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Interesting reading in the latest review of the Mirai II, particularly:

'Not that you would understand any of this from our Government, its ministers and its civil servants. Normally I’d accuse them of treating us like a bunch of morons, but here one might suspect something of a conspiracy.

Hydrogen wasn’t mentioned at all in last spring’s Department for Transport’s decarbonisation consultation paper, a recent Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership report on decarbonising heavy transport didn’t once mention fuel cells and one even more recent economic intelligence report from a Cambridge-based specialist did a fantastic hatchet job calling fuel cells a “commercial failure”.'


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/toyota/toyota-mir...

Strange, when you consider hydrogen has none of the drawbacks of BEVs in terms of range and charging time, just the current poor charging network which is common to both technologies; and that the japs seem to be investing in this big time.

Makes me think our government has backed the wrong horse.