Dr. Patrick Plötz of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Germany has published a new study at Nature Electronics (paywall) in which he says fuel cell cars and trucks have little chance of becoming commercially viable and that the urgency of the climate crisis demands decision makers focus on battery-electric vehicles instead. The gist of the study is available on Charged EVs.
It’s not that hydrogen will not play a role in reducing carbon emissions, he writes. “Hydrogen will play a vital role in industry, shipping and synthetic aviation fuels. But for road transport, we cannot wait for hydrogen technology to catch up, and our focus now should be on battery-electric vehicles in both passenger and freight transport. The window of opportunity to establish a relevant market share for hydrogen cars is as good as closed.”
At the beginning of 2021,…
Hydrogen For Cars & Trucks Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come – And Gone
