Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars

- 96% of the world's hydrogen consumption is obtained from gas, coal or crude oil. (It is no coincidence that all hydrogen promoters are oil companies or countries tied to gas and coal exports).
- Electrolysis is also an extremely inefficient process. Only 13-18% of the initial energy input is used. It takes 10 liters of clean drinking water to produce one liter of hydrogen.
- Hydrogen storage is a difficult task. The fluid flows through the walls of the vessels.
- For its practical use or transport, it needs to be compressed to 700 bar or liquefied to -253 °C, which takes an additional huge amount of energy.
- Hydrogen charging stations have a habit (and history) of exploding causing damage hundreds of meters around them.
- FCEVs do not have any useful power and require a battery pack to start from a traffic light.
- Sitting on several vessels under 700 bar pressure filled with highly flammable fluid... not a very pleasant feeling. Even more so when you have a seat with a child in the back seat.
- FCEVs require regular maintenance and safety checks.
- FCEVs require frequent maintenance and replacement of costly components. Huge filters are a consumable and a key component to their proper functioning. Fuel cells are also consumable and lose power over time.
- FCEVs have a significantly reduced service life.
- Their luggage space is too small.
- In their most optimal version, hydrogen vehicles are at least 6 /six/ times more expensive to operate than electric cars.

Hydrogen has NO future in passenger cars. Its only adequate application is as an energy storage alternative...albeit quite expensive.