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tibu | 3 years ago

Hydrogen fueled cars are also electric. They are not that far.

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CydeWeys|3 years ago

No way. Hydrogen cars are chemical. The trickiest part about an EV is the battery pack, and hydrogen cars don't have 'em. Plus all that investment into hydrogen fuel cells is 100% non-transferrable.

dragonwriter|3 years ago

> Hydrogen cars are chemical.

FCEVs are chemical in the same sense that BEVs are, because a “fuel cell” is, like a battery cell, an electrochemical cell.

The only real difference is that the “fuel” and “waste” are inside a battery, but come from and go to the outside in a fuel cell, which means that an FCEV can be fueled (and exhausts) like an combustion engine vehcile, despite being fully electric.

dzhiurgis|3 years ago

> Hydrogen cars are chemical

So are batteries too

bryanlarsen|3 years ago

Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles have a large battery, larger than the ones in a Prius.

_hypx|3 years ago

This is totally incorrect. A fuel cell is a type of electrochemical cell. A fuel cell car has an electric motor just like a conventional EV. We often use the terms “BEV” and “FCEV” to differentiate them.