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Hydrogen fueled cars are also electric. They are not that far.
by tibu 4y ago
Hydrogen fueled cars are also electric. They are not that far.
- CydeWeys 4y agoNo way. Hydrogen cars are chemical. The trickiest part about an EV is the battery pack, and hydrogen cars don't have 'em. Plus all that investment into hydrogen fuel cells is 100% non-transferrable.
- _hypx 4y agoThis is totally incorrect. A fuel cell is a type of electrochemical cell. A fuel cell car has an electric motor just like a conventional EV. We often use the terms “BEV” and “FCEV” to differentiate them.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoHydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles have a large battery, larger than the ones in a Prius.
- nradov 4y agoThe Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicle has a small battery, only 1.2 kWh. https://www.toyota.com/mirai/2023/features/ https://www.toyota.com/mirai/2023/features/
- theshrike79 4y agoAnd story has it the small battery is the reason for the pathetic performance. (9.1 seconds 0-60 speed, which is minivan levels). The fuel cell can't produce electricity fast enough to power the engines for proper acceleration and the battery doesn't have enough buffer.
- nradov 4y agoThe Honda Odyssey minivan can run 0-60 mph in under 7 seconds. So I guess the Mirai is worse than a minivan. But maybe good enough for a city car.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Hydrogen cars are chemical. FCEVs are chemical in the same sense that BEVs are, because a “fuel cell” is, like a battery cell, an electrochemical cell. The only real difference is that the “fuel” and “waste” are inside a battery, but come from and go to the outside in a fuel cell, which means that an FCEV can be fueled (and exhausts) like an combustion engine vehcile, despite being fully electric.
- CydeWeys 4y agoYes, thank you, that was the distinction I was trying to get at, not quite using the right terms.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago> Hydrogen cars are chemical So are batteries too