>>2016143Yes...but why? There is no answer to the "why". Answering "how" is not a good enough reason to do something.
Putting it simply in BOTH CASES you begin with photons, and you finish with a charged battery. A fuel cell doesn't drive the motor in a HFC, a battery does. HFC vehicles have a battery in them. SAME beginning, SAME destination.
With BEVs you just go straight from photons to electricity. All you need is an inverter and a charge controller. You're there. Done. Supply chain complete.
With HFCs you take that chain, and IN ADDITION you take a meandering path through several electrochemical processes, at considerable expense and complexity, for a LOWER output. You don't even make gains, you make losses by doing this.
And EVERYTHING you need for the BEV is also needed for HFCs. They rely on the same, AND ADDITIONAL infrastructure. Hydrogen is not hedging against power grid failure, it just adds another mutually-fatal supply chain on top of the existing one.
>>2016140No, they exist because retarded people who believe in solutions like hydrogen buses think that collecting water is stealing a public resource. In Nevada for instance, you need a "water right" to legally catch rainwater, and in many places the homeowner doesn't own this right.
So no, people can get elected into office without understanding that once a rainwater catchment is full, it overflows and has literally zero impact on runoff. They're that stupid. They can't conceptualize a tap running into a full glass. They write laws proving they don't understand it.
