Hydrogen cars: a new leap for a better future

Abstract

Hydrogen vehicles have been around for quite some time, but have recently been advertised as the future for passenger vehicles and civilian transportation. Hydrogen fuel cells run of pressurized hydrogen, that has a refill time equivalent to a gas filled vehicle and brags about things like zero emissions with literal water coming out of the exhaust. This sounds great, especially compared to electric vehicles which can sometimes take an hour to charge at a station. Hydrogen seems great in theory so what happened? Well, there are a few reasons why hydrogen cars lost traction and publicity, it all boils down to five factors: price, convenience, performance, the environment, and competition. Hydrogen cars tried to fix a problem that to be honest, didn't really need to be solved. And it didn't even succeed at fixing the problem in the first place. Hydrogen cars can run exceptionally long distance on hydrogen, but the factors like price, performance and convenience put the nail in the coffin for hydrogen fuel cell cars. Now you might be thinking: „Hey, the technology is super impressive, so if it's not gonna work for commercial vehicles where can we apply it?”.