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OKIsItJustMe

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4. In your opinion, yes…

Reply to kristopher (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 5, 2016, 02:45 PM

Nov 2016

Using your logic, battery-powered vehicles should be outselling gasoline-powered vehicles, and should have been for the last hundred years. However, consumers have other considerations.

Check out this list of “Challenges”:
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/fcv_benefits.shtml

… Several challenges must be overcome before FCVs will be a successful, competitive alternative for consumers.

Vehicle Cost
…
Getting Hydrogen to Consumers
…
Fuel Cell Durability and Reliability
…
Public Education
…

Your focus is simply not where the consumer’s is.

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Safe new storage method could be key to future of hydrogen-powered vehicles [View all] OKIsItJustMe Nov 2016 OP

I've barely heard that issue raised. The obstacle is low round trip efficiency. nt kristopher Nov 2016 #1

That’s the obstacle in your mind OKIsItJustMe Nov 2016 #2

Round trip efficiency is the stake in the heart of hydrogen storage. nt kristopher Nov 2016 #3

In your opinion, yes… OKIsItJustMe Nov 2016 #4

That isn't my "logic" at all; it's your own personal bit of confusion. kristopher Nov 2016 #5

You’ve either intentionally misrepresented the story, or misunderstood it OKIsItJustMe Nov 2016 #6

Toyota is (finally) rolling out a series hybrid like the Volt. kristopher Nov 2016 #8

This is simply the 2nd generation of the one they introduced in 2012 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2016 #10

Battery fanatics have tried to paint Toyota's latest move into lithium nationalize the fed Nov 2016 #9

There’s nothing new here, aside from an improved/safer battery OKIsItJustMe Nov 2016 #11

Delivering fireworks in a hydrogen-fuelled Toyota Mirai OKIsItJustMe Nov 2016 #7