Why the future of transportation is hydrogen

H2stations.org says at the end of 2020, there were 553 hydrogen stations in operation worldwide, with concrete plans in place for an additional 225 station locations.

Hydrogen has moved beyond being a research curiosity, it’s not just a scientific concept anymore. Hydrogen cars, buses, trucks and trains are out there in the world today, along with the accompanying infrastructure. With the likes of Jeremy Clarkson writing about it in the press, public interest is increasing, and the general public will play an important role in which technology leads the green movement, as the drivers of the economy.

Whilst there is a place for both battery-electric and hydrogen technology for passenger cars, hydrogen is the only forward for decarbonisation of other modes of transport; there simply isn’t, and won’t, be enough batteries to electrify everything, and that’s without bringing the grid into it.

The Conversation reports battery production capacity currently under construction will allow the production of the equivalent of 40 million electric vehicles annually by 2028. In 2019, the world produced nearly 100 million cars, vans, buses and trucks and there’s around 1.4 billion motor vehicles in the world today.

Even at the projected 2028 level of battery production capacity, The Conversation estimates it would take 35 years to replace this global vehicle fleet with electric models, which is not fast enough to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

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