Your question is a good one, though unclear. *Which* people? Are you asking about the advantage to a consumer? A manufacturer? A policy maker?
Your “tons of disadvantages” can also be applied to BEVs or. At simply be not accurate. Higher cost to build? Well, yeah. But don’t BEVs cost more to build, too, than an ICE? Go back a few years ago, when battery costs were so much higher, even more so. The look at the cost differentials when the first modern ones came out, and it was early in the development cycle. Remember the first Priuses? It took years for the first profit, and then became California’s top-selling car. Long term is the cost higher? And if it is, what’s the benefit (and advantages)? Higher cost to operate. For the consumer? Really? No fuel cost (for three years, at least). I understand that maybe it’s more complicated than that, but just don’t put a zero on the cost of charging. Maintenance cost? Maybe higher, I don’t know. Lower efficiency. Lower efficiency of what, and to whom? No existing infrastructure. Again, this all depends. If you have access to a station and 5 minutes to fill every 300 miles or so, that’s plenty . The problem is that right NOW, everyone doesn’t have that. But that’s the same on the BEV side, though depending on the use, *can* be less of an issue because of home charging. I say “can” because we are needing to subsidize non-residential charging to the tune of billions, so apparently it’s essential (or we are wasting money). Perhaps that is the case because, unless most of us here that think that residential charging could be sufficient for most, the California Energy Commission thinks differently. Their surveys have caused them to conclude that the biggest barrier for people buying BEVs is “lack of infrastructure.” On both the BEV and FCEV side that’s just a matter of time getting the infrastructure in. But guess what? At scale, infrastructure for FCEVs will be cheaper than BEVs, at least according to a McKinsey study, and I believe the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Hence their “H2 at Scale” initiative. I’ve seen some work that indicates that even today, it’s cheaper. I won’t weigh in with my list of advantages of FCEVs, but will enjoy seeing the lists of others in answer to your question. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Aug 17, 2021, at 12:49 PM, Peter VanDerWal via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > > What, exactly, do people see as the advantage(s) of a FCEV over a BEV? > > There are tons of disadvantages, higher cost to build, higher cost to > operate, lower efficiency, no existing infrastructure, etc.; so what is the > big advantage that would make them worth while? > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
