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Hydrogen combustion cars are not commercially available. [citation needed] In the light road vehicle segment, by the end of 2022, 70,200 fuel cell electric vehicles had been sold worldwide, [25] compared with 26 million plug-in electric vehicles. [26] In 2023, 3,143 hydrogen cars were sold in the US compared with 380,000 BEVs. [27]
Donald Trump has pledged to get rid of hydrogen-powered cars because they “blow up”. The former US president made the claim during a rally in Michigan on Saturday (26 October). Addressing the ...
If well optimized, slightly higher efficiencies can be achieved. The comparison with a hydrogen fuel cell is interesting. The fuel cell has a high efficiency peak at low load, while at high load the efficiency drops. The hydrogen combustion engine has a peak at high load and can achieve similar efficiency levels as a hydrogen fuel cell. [34]
According to Toyota, hydrogen is “as safe as any other fuel used in a car,” with the hydrogen stored in high-pressure tanks and vehicles equipped with comprehensive safety systems that undergo ...
Tesla’s dominance in the zero-emissions market may not mean as much if consumers see the benefits fuel cell vehicles can offer. Why hydrogen cars will be Tesla's biggest threat [Video] Skip to ...
The Hype about Hydrogen contends that global warming and U.S. reliance on foreign fuel imports cannot be solved by the hypothetical hydrogen economy that has been advanced as a possible solution to these problems, and that "neither government policy nor business investment should be based on the belief that hydrogen cars will have meaningful commercial success in the near or medium term."
Hydrogen fuel cell cars like the Toyota Mirai contain Kevlar-armored tanks that store hydrogen at 700 times the pressure of the Earth’s atmosphere. But this is hard to do on a large scale for ...
By 2017, Daimler phased out its FCEV development, citing declining battery costs and increasing range of EVs, [53] and most of the automobile companies developing hydrogen cars had switched their focus to battery electric vehicles. [54] By 2020, only three car makers were still manufacturing, or had active manufacturing programs for hydrogen ...