EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
Seriously, what do FCEVs really offer that's better than what BEVs are
already giving us? What exactly justifies taking resources away from BEVs
and giving them to FCEVs?
Well said, David.
I think the answer is that FCEVs have a few advantages that suit them
for certain niche applications. They've been used in spacecraft, in
factories where a source of H2 is already available, and in various
buses and fleet vehicles that operate on a fixed route.
I believe we should be doing R&D on *all* technologies. We simply aren't
that good at picking winners! So we can't "put all our eggs in one
basket" and assume that we picked the right one.
I'm not a big fan of subsidies. I would rather not have someone's "thumb
on the scale" to favor one technology to the disadvantage of others. But
in our present situation, the oil industry already has huge subsidies on
their side; so it makes a certain amount of sense to have matching
subsidies to support other technologies. That means EVs... as well as FCEVs.
The challenge is to try to keep the playing field level. That is
extremely difficult in our dysfunctional partisan situation.
Imagine what (say) football would look like if there were only two
teams. And, these two teams were the ones that set the rules for each game!
Lee
--
ICEs have the same problem as lightbulbs. Why innovate and make
better ones when the current ones burn out often enough to keep
you in business? -- Hunter Cressall
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Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
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