Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars

You have hit a key point in the transportation industry.  BEV’s for the commercial transportation industry are a fail. Time is everything. Spending 2 hours charging a semi every 4 hours is unacceptable. Sounds not too bad when you are talking 1 truck. But change that to 30 million semi’s and now you see the cumulative profit losses. FCEV’s will not have that impact. As commercial transportation helps create the supply chain of H2, non commercial vehicle users are going to want that convenience as well. 

Another micro comparison misses the macro scale. Yes BEV’s are more efficient than HFCEV. But HFCEV are far more efficient than gas and gas and oil powers the world. Now scale up the mining and processing requirements for more BEV’s. We are already having a negative impact in Africa for the rapid increase in demand for cobalt and lithium.  It is an ecological and humanitarian disaster in some countries. BEV proponents like to ignore this fact because they can point to their one BEV and say I am doing my part and if everyone did it would be better and then literally claim there is no environmental impact from BEV’s. Very naive.