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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
To add to what BBS has said, hydrogen (depending on the technology) requires fuel up stations, electric cars can be plugged into any outlet, anywhere. Hydrogen would require 1000's of gas stations to add Hydrogen, no small task, when it would mostly go unused until such time as a higher percentage of cars were using it.
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And you still need thousands of outlets to plug electric cars into.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Hydrogen vehicles also don't go very far between refuelling, and don't have as much room for improvement in that regard as electric vehicles do. You can only store so much Hydrogen in one small vehicle safely - without that vehicle becoming a bomb driving down the freeway. Safety is very important when using hydrogen fuel tanks, as the gas must be compressed, and even otherwise is significantly more explosive than gasoline.
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You don't think that hydrogen technology can improve? It is still pretty much in its infancy compared to electric and battery technology.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
No, current electric cars won't be capable of long distance trips, but in the coming years, this will improve. Plus, vehicles like the Chevy Volt could cover people who need to drive long distances.
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So will hydrogen technology.
Both you and BBS have valid points. In near future, we probably will have a large abundance of fossil, electric and hydrogen powered vehicles on our roads. From there, the market will dictate which of the technologies will replace fossil fuels.
In the end, it probably will be a combination of electric and hydrogen.