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Re:Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Ch... by mmooss on Saturday April 19, 2025 @03:25PM (#43738771)
> Hydrogen vehicles have not proven to match or even beat EV's in a lot of key metrics that matter

Not yet. That is the nature of technological R&D - if we had the answers, we wouldn't be doing R&D.

AI before the last decade or so didn't beat other computer technologies in key metrics; should they have stopped developing it? Fusion power doesn't beat fission and other options in key metrics; solar didn't beat other sources in key metrics, including costs, ... - should humanity have stopped developing those things?

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Re:Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Ch... by philjohn on Monday April 21, 2025 @05:47AM (#43750054)
Toyota have been researching hydrogen cars since the early 90's.

Unless you can find a way to double their efficiency, and also get hydrogen down to close to 1:1 energy input to output it's just not an efficienct use of electricity.

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Re:Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Ch... by mmooss on Monday April 21, 2025 @02:32PM (#43754987)
EVs were researched for decades before they came to fruition. That's the nature of research.
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