I have always liked the idea of hydrogen powered vehicles . I can’t help but think that it will never be successful as so many people have invested so much in electric .
Oh I completely agree , at work I was the only person in our group who said “ go and look at what is involved in making a battery and what’s used to get it to your charging point at home , then tell me it’s green “ Nobody was interested .
People just pretend what happens before the car lands on their drive doesn't happen, they just love to virtue signal about how they care and how green they are.
Like all tech the price starts high & rapidly falls. Do you remember the price of colour TVs or VHS when first launched……now you can buy a LCD TV for less than a ton
I do. I remember walking past a TV shop with a colour TV in the window showing Wimbledon. Everyone stopping as it was the first glimpse of a colour TV we had seen. First electric calculator we got at work, the size of couple of bricks and could only do basic calculations, cost more than the managers weekly wage. The figures below are illuminating. In reality they were even more expensive as the figures are only adjusted for inflation. In 1967 the average wage was just over £1000 so a colour TV was about 30% of a yearly wage, equivalent to about £9,000 or so now. I remember my uncle, a company director, getting a Dynatron whose fancy wooden case was bigger than the screen and the picture was awful and it cost £350. My dad thought he was crackers although he could well afford it. It was 7 years until my dad got one. Of course housing for one thing was a lot less back then. Television Televisions were expensive in the 1960s. A black and white set cost cost about £70 (or over £1000 allowing for inflation). please log in to view this image Televisions were expensive in the 1960s Colour TV started in 1967. A colour TV set was very expensive. In 1968 a Baird 701 cost £279, or £3200 in today's money. TV sets in those days were unreliable, so you would have to budget for some high repair bills and an extra £5 for a colour television licence.[1] Many people chose to rent rather than buy a TV in the 1960s. If you rented a colour set it cost from 30s to 40s a week. (£1.50 to £2). In today's money that would be £17 to £23.
without a doubt…the infrastructure will follow….what came first the petrol station or the petrol engine…. It’s always the same
I don't know what has to happen for the energy companies to decide that hydrogen is a goer. From what I've heard hydrogen is expensive to transport and store because of it's volatility so building a national distribution network will cost squillions.
I think it's more complex than that, liquid hydrogen is easier to transport but cars would use gas hydrogen. This has to transported in cryogenic containers which are more expensive than petrol tankers. Best way would be to ship it underground in pipelines, I'd guess the cost of that would be eye-watering. I'm no expert and I'm sure these issues can be overcome if the will is there, which it doesn't seem to be at the moment.
£55k new ? Expensive, sure, but there’s a lot more expensive cars on the road than that already. ignoring the lack of infrastructure I was expecting a much higher price than that tbh
You need rather more than hydrogen to achieve fusion. Enough people are struggling to achieve it at the moment
How Much is a New Car? Starting Prices for Popular Cars Small £19,000 - £25,000 Medium £26,000 - £28,000 SUV £26,000 - £32,000 Average UK wage = £28k
