Road vehicles with storage battery-powered electric drive trains are a rich man’s toy, and shall remain so until a cheap and reliable means of GENERATING electricity on-board the vehicle becomes available.
The fuel cell, which is perhaps the best course to pursue, would serve nicely to replace the cumbersome and relatively short operating range of rechargeable batteries, but the means of refueling these converters of energy to electricity is still not in place. The best of all fuels would be hydrogen, as its “combustion” product is water vapor, but hydrogen mines are still not in production.
There are ways to vastly increase the production and distribution of hydrogen fuel, but there has not yet been enough infrastructure developed.
There are ways to vastly increase the production and distribution of hydrogen fuel, but there has not yet been enough infrastructure developed.
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It takes a lot of energy to produce hydrogen as well. It doesn’t come out of thin air.