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Originally Posted by MisterMe
They have this stuff called water. Perhaps, you've heard of it?
The energy needed to strip hydrogen molecules from water is much greater than that needed to drive the same distance using a battery. No one is saying that hydrogen can not be made to work - but why would we want to use hydrogen in view of the fact that it will take over ten years and billions of dollars to implement the needed infrastructure and it requires more energy input than a battery?
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Fuel Cell cars do not need 200 lb batteries as you stated earlier. The Equinox has smaller batteries that are charged off the FC for auxiliary, it does not power the electric motor whatsoever. Also, this country does not have the electrical grid capacity right now for even 1 million plug-ins (based off the brown-outs we see in the summer already).
Overall, yes Fuel Cells have more hurdles than plug-in's but it may not be as extreme as you think. You really don't need a hydrogen station every 5 miles to start implementing this, if you just have a dozen or so in the 10 most populated cities on each coast there will be a market to sell these things and it's not a huge investment for anyone if federal/state/city gov'ts, energy companies and auto companies all chip in to get them off the ground.