Elon Musk regularly makes headlines, most recently with his attempted $44 billion takeover of Twitter and being the subject of a sexual harassment claim. Whatever your views on the eccentric billionaire, the Time Person of the Year 2021 has tremendous influence over the technology sector. For example, in June 2021 his ‘break-up tweet’ with Bitcoin caused the virtual currency to drop over 7% in value, wiping approximately $365 billion from the crypto markets. Therefore, we were very interested (and apprehensive, in equal measure) when Elon Musk shared his most recent views on hydrogen as a potential fuel source.
In a recent interview at the Financial Times Future of the Car Summit, Elon Musk described hydrogen as “the most dumb thing [he] could possibly imagine for energy storage”. He continued his criticism with a series of statements about why he believed hydrogen was not…