“Except for the upper stage of a rocket, hydrogen makes no sense,” Elon Musk, the parent of the battery-powered Roadster and Model S said in an e-mail interview to ScienceFriday.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 26, 2018, at 3:38 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> Remember how the BEV industry was just 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and 30 >> years and more ago. > >> Back then, while pushing for years for a ZEV mandate, I heard many of the >> same arguments used by the auto and oil companies >about BEVs as I have >> heard for several years about hydrogen. > > - Mark > People smarter than me did the math and it proves that BEV will work very > well. Then the cars were built and it works well. People smarter than me > have also done the math on hydrogen and proven that it does work but at a > rate that is more expensive in all respects not to mention metal > embrittlement allowing hydrogen to escape and possibly explode. So many > problems including hydrogen escape. Since hydrogen is the smallest particle > there is a natural loss. The hydrogen dead end is so obvious it is troubling > that there is a lobby. Simply hydrogen is a way that the energy stream might > be privatized and monetized in favor of the owner not the user as electric > is. Electricity: you can make it yourself, plug in yourself store it > yourself. Hydrogen is financially exorbitant for personal use. All the same > problems that you have with the gasoline economy you have with hydrogen. > Why? Oh yes...range anxiety. Barn muck also works as a fuel source...do you > see a horseshit lobby? Actually there is. So find your niche and stay there. > See if it works but stop trying to take over BEV. It works. It will win. > Stop the hydrogen diversion. Wishes are not reality. Solar cars are probably > the future but so far few believe me. Lawrence Rhodes > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181226/d9e924a9/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181226/9ba7f3a7/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
