Found this → https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinio...ommentary/theres-better-answer-electric-cars/
Important points made by this article (with elaboration by me):
1. Electric cars don't go very far. (We all know it's not possible to make a BEV with enough range to be acceptable to Joe Sixpack.)
2. Electric cars take too long to charge. (Hours and hours and HOURS!)
3. Electric cars require a huge investment in charging infrastructure. (Obviously it would be impractical to ever deploy some kind of widespread charging network?)
4. Electric cars are not the most effective way to reduce CO2 emissions. (And CO2 emission is the only thing in the world that matters. Not smog. Not over-dependence on certain oil-rich countries. Not efficiency. Only CO2 is worthy of consideration.)
5. Some electricity comes from sources that produce CO2. (And the electrical grid will never become cleaner, because what are you some sort of pie-in-the-sky dreamer??)
Well, it's The Japan Times. I'm sure they love hydrogen. In fact, the article argues that instead of building hydrogen cars, maybe we should use industrial processes to pull carbon out of the air, combine it with hydrogen (which comes from where??) to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels, and burn that in our conventional ICEs. So, effectively the carbon becomes a carrier for hydrogen, and the hydrogen car lives on, in a sense, without the need for that pesky HFC technology, fueling stations, etc. (But we still have smog.)
Important points made by this article (with elaboration by me):
1. Electric cars don't go very far. (We all know it's not possible to make a BEV with enough range to be acceptable to Joe Sixpack.)
2. Electric cars take too long to charge. (Hours and hours and HOURS!)
3. Electric cars require a huge investment in charging infrastructure. (Obviously it would be impractical to ever deploy some kind of widespread charging network?)
4. Electric cars are not the most effective way to reduce CO2 emissions. (And CO2 emission is the only thing in the world that matters. Not smog. Not over-dependence on certain oil-rich countries. Not efficiency. Only CO2 is worthy of consideration.)
5. Some electricity comes from sources that produce CO2. (And the electrical grid will never become cleaner, because what are you some sort of pie-in-the-sky dreamer??)
Well, it's The Japan Times. I'm sure they love hydrogen. In fact, the article argues that instead of building hydrogen cars, maybe we should use industrial processes to pull carbon out of the air, combine it with hydrogen (which comes from where??) to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels, and burn that in our conventional ICEs. So, effectively the carbon becomes a carrier for hydrogen, and the hydrogen car lives on, in a sense, without the need for that pesky HFC technology, fueling stations, etc. (But we still have smog.)