Car companies are pathetically clinging to the past, who would have known? Unfortunately, that fits with our conservative “we wanna stay car centric” government that people somehow still voted for.
The best way out for them is to delay any switch to EV’s. As far as I know, their current plan is to sell “hybrid” motors, which are said to burn both gasoline and hydrogen.
Hydrogen is a fuel with a future - maybe in shipping with the fixed routes and general incompatibility with batteries - but in the context of cars it’s not economical (at scale) and they know that. So 99% of the time, those hybrid motors will drive on gasoline, because who would pay 10 times the amount for something only available at a select few stations.
But if they sell those hybrid motors as a 0 emission alternative, they can keep selling something that’s basically a combustion engine as long as the gas station network still exists, while blaming the rising emissions on consumer preference and bleeding the government dry with hydrogen subsidies in the wrong sector.
Car companies are pathetically clinging to the past, who would have known? Unfortunately, that fits with our conservative “we wanna stay car centric” government that people somehow still voted for.
The best way out for them is to delay any switch to EV’s. As far as I know, their current plan is to sell “hybrid” motors, which are said to burn both gasoline and hydrogen.
Hydrogen is a fuel with a future - maybe in shipping with the fixed routes and general incompatibility with batteries - but in the context of cars it’s not economical (at scale) and they know that. So 99% of the time, those hybrid motors will drive on gasoline, because who would pay 10 times the amount for something only available at a select few stations.
But if they sell those hybrid motors as a 0 emission alternative, they can keep selling something that’s basically a combustion engine as long as the gas station network still exists, while blaming the rising emissions on consumer preference and bleeding the government dry with hydrogen subsidies in the wrong sector.