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Cake day: December 27th, 2023

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  • Here’s my reasons:

    • Humans are shit at keeping pressurized gasses contained, and unburned hydrogen, while not a greenhouse gas, contributes huge to the formation of other greenhouse gasses
    • Storage options are high pressure (10k psi for Toyota right now) and hydrides. A 10k psi filling hose leak can be fatal. Hydride cells are generally full of metals that catch fire when they get wet, they’re heavy and slow to fill.
    • Fuel cells use platinum group metals. Tweakers love stealing them from catalytic converters and fuel cells will be no different.
    • Electrolysis is super energy demanding. Until some silver bullet tech comes along, most vehicle hydrogen will likely come from fossil fuel extraction.

    And while BEVs have heavy, hard to recycle batteries, they also have possibly the simplest drivetrain available. Everything is solid state, except for a few motor bearings, there’s no fancy metals and there’s very few components to the whole system.