Hydrogen vehicles solve so many of the problems associated with battery electric cars and yet they have all but disappeared from the discussion on the future of the automobile.
Hydrogen vs electric cars 2017.
And while neither produce the harmful carbon emissions of a petrol or diesel engine they are different.
There is a company called nikola which claims they will sell semi trucks using hydrogen.
Most have the lowest cost of hydrogen at about 2 5 4 5 per kilogram.
Battery electric cars start at 24 000 have several options below.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars.
Battery electric vehicle choice.
Amazingly with virtually no revenue and no vehicles made nikola is worth over 22 billion.
2017 honda clarity fuel cell.
Electric cars are estimated to have about 35 of the car market by 2025 with 10 pure electric cars and 25 of hybrid cars according to harrop and das 2009.
Even canada where the fuel cell was invented doesn t have many hydrogen stations and zero hydrogen cars were sold in 2017 in that.
Gasoline choice it s a hydrogen vs.
Even though both electric cars and hydrogen fuel cells produce zero emissions at the tailpipe the same can t be said for the fuel powering both evs and fcevs.
Selling electric cars is a breeze for tesla not so much for every other automaker.
Which is actually more efficient.
But it isn t a hydrogen vs.
In contrast to vehicles powered by a conventional fossil fuel or biofuel based ice the energy storage system is of crucial importance for electric vehicles.
While electric cars run on batteries hydrogen cars run on fuel cells.