Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose company has become synonymous with electric cars, is among the most vocal critics of using hydrogen as a transportation fuel, citing its inefficiency relative to batteries and the high cost of the fuel cell stacks that make electric power from hydrogen and oxygen.
Yet makers of trucks and commercial vehicles that need to travel long distances aren’t convinced that multi-ton, lithium-ion battery packs that need relatively long recharge times are the best option. (Notably, Musk also doesn’t launch his SpaceX rockets with batteries, but instead a blend of kerosene and liquid oxygen that spew climate-warming black carbon, or soot.)
What climate crisis? I think they are making it up.
I want to see the solar powered D-11. Upgraded RC memorial edition with faux corinthian leathet interior.
How are you gong to generate the electricity for all those electric cars and trucks?
And no, wind, biomass, solar etc do not, and will never, generate enough, power to supply the needed electricity.
Well, the tech for ‘splitting the electron’ is rolling out in the next couple of years, and the energy ‘gain’ is 100x to 200x over that of simply burning Hydrogen. So, there is that.
Fun fact:
There are electric dump trucks which never need external charging - they go uphill empty, fill up, then use regenerative braking hauling cargo downhill, getting enough energy to repeat.
Very narrow use case, yes, but interesting/amusing.
Did he really say that. Because if he was talking from the cab of a truck with a Cummins idling, then it's likely nobody could actually hear him.
Luckily strip-mining the raw materials for batteries is good for the environment. 🤡
Imaginary solutions for an imaginary problem.....
Millenials, Metros and queers populate a great deal of the upper cadre of many major US institutions
Then again the cynic in me might think this is just another CEO positioning their company to be near the front of the line for the impending flood of government funding for climate change?
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. They are holding that card back until a few trillion has been spent on hydrogen infrastructure.
My son has a battery operated Snapper push mower. It is powered by a Briggs and Stratton system. Makes perfect sense as a product.
Brandon says the next big thing is battery powered generators.
We will still need Diesel engines to run the generators needed to charge EVs.
This is sooooooo STUPID!
Ignoring all the NEGATIVES (pun intended) about battery power.
Like windmills. Oh, how wonderful. To get FREE energy “from the wind”.
EXCEPT, for all the problems associated them.
Like when the wind don’t blow! Never mind the birds!
BUT, wind power has the BIGGEST environmental footprint of all energy production.
Nuclear has the smallest footprint, even though nuclear (or nucular as W. used to say), plants are FORCED to occupy far more land than they need. Security?
Hey Bill, hand me that 1/2 inch wrench.
Sorry Joe, I left it in the truck.
Well, go get it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuYZSiz35Bg
18-wheel Hindenburgs, coming right up...
federal subsidies is driving this
the ev manufacturers will be beholden to the FEDGOV
good bye free enterprise. hello fascism
When will we see battery powered tractors, combines and large trucks needed to plant and harvest food crops? Where do you charge your tractor or combine in the middle of a field?