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Re:Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to d... by oblio on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:11PM (#37837567)
> Putting two tons of highly toxic and flammable lithium into a car-shaped object just to commute one person a few dozen miles is quite literally insane from all practical points of view.

And ICEs are powered by many thousands of mini explosions per minute with a side effect of producing an odorless gas that can kill us silently.

Everything can be scaremongered.

And personal transportation, as much as I wish wasn't the case, is a fact of life since 1910.

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Re:Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to d... by tremon on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:49PM (#37838074)
What happened in 1910? The first automobile dates from 1886, and I'm pretty sure the horse&buggy personal transportation method predates it by several centuries.
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Re:Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to d... by oblio on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:39AM (#37843240)
Mass manufacturing. Almost everything became widely available, at least in developing and developed countries.
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Re:Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to d... by vel0city on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:51AM (#37844390)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T

Technically 1908, but we can round.

The first automobiles were practically toys for the rich. Cars didn't really become a "mass market" thing until ~1910.

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