More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.

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    5 months ago

    Hydrogen all day…there’s people who converted their pickups on YouTube that I saw like 10 years ago…just a guy in his driveway. Zero reason why companies haven’t done this yet other then sheer ignorance or greed from oil, or both.

    I personally don’t trust EVs to fix anything…it just takes control away from end user and makes 2nd hand market almost nonexistent

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Zero reason why companies haven’t done this yet other then sheer ignorance or greed from oil, or both.

      Or maybe it’s because hydrogen tanks take up a fuck ton of space and are impractical because of it. The Toyota Mirai has a horribly small trunk for a vehicle it’s size. In anything smaller and you have almost no trunk. And retrofitting it into a car not designed for it? Good luck getting any reasonably sized tank in there without hacking away at the floor and making your own.

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        5 months ago

        Let’s also not forget that a big gas cylinder of hydrogen is basically explodium waiting to go bang in a crash as well

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          Pretty sure that they tested those hydrogen tanks for safety and they really don’t cause issues. There’s loads of safety systems in there.

          The biggest issue that I have with hydrogen tanks is that the hydrogen makes those tanks brittle over time. I recall that those tanks need replacing every 8 years. Again, that’s due to the hydrogen, it’s not due to how much it was driven.

          There is often suggestions that an EV battery doesn’t last, see some comments here. Hydrogen tank issue is ignored for whatever reason.

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              And once EVs become bigger and bigger in the market then battery repair will be more and more common. When batteries “die” it’s typcally just a small amount of cells that are super degraded, and the rest of the pack is otherwise fine. Swap a couple 18650s from a parts battery pack and you could get a pretty solid boost in range.