Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany

Re:Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany by Retric on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:00PM (#32346189)

Electrified highways (over head or in road) is vastly more efficient and covers the vast majority of truck pollution. Ex: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2019/07/electri... or https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127520_world-first-in-...

After that using bio or synthetic fuels, batteries, hydrogen etc are more reasonable because they need to supply vastly less energy per trip.

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Re:Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany by abakker on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:48PM (#32346793)

I don't think this is true if you factor in the Total carbon from the process of actually electrifying the roads. Its a ton of cabling made out of a ton of metal that needs to be mined.

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Re:Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany by Retric on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:04PM (#32347626)

In comparison to building 5 or more times as many nuclear reactors, vastly more of whatever fuel creating facility you want etc it’s a clear win.

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Re:Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany by orangepurple on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:15PM (#32348382)

I don't think it's a clear win. Because the scale of either initiative seems to be massive it warrants further study. Regardless, electrified freeways are a very interesting concept and I have never seen them anywhere yet.

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