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To: ckilmer

What do folks think about the platinum constraint on widespread fuel cell use?

Fuel cells depend on platinum to work well, and it is 20 times rarer than gold. Production is limited, 80% comes from one country (South Africa) suffering from labor unrest, and other uses compete for the limited supply.


115 posted on 03/22/2015 5:45:05 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

What do folks think about the platinum constraint on widespread fuel cell use?
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Prices on electric car batteries will be cut in half by Tesla’s gigafactory so Tesla’s cars can move from 70k to 35k in about 3 years.

There is currently no such plan in place in the USA for fuel cells so if they come down from their comparably high prices —the authors of their price decline will be in Germany or Japan.

Whatever, we are setting up for some really golden years for consumers in the world of transportation as several competing transportation systems push each others prices downward.


117 posted on 03/22/2015 6:46:06 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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