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Comment by philjohn

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/fuel-cell-e...

I believe all Hydrogen vehicles are using proton exchange membranes still, which have roughly 40-50% efficiency.

And that's before you take into account that even the most cutting edge hydrogen refining processes are around 70% efficient.

So 1kWh of energy input (electricity) will net you 3X the motive power when used directly in a BEV than first being coverted to hydrogen, and then converted back into electricity.[1]

[1] 0.5*0.7 = 0.35.

parent philjohn 1 year ago

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