Hydrogen Vs Electric Cars 2017

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Hydrogen vs electric cars 2017.

Even though both electric cars and hydrogen fuel cells produce zero emissions at the tailpipe the same can t be said for the fuel powering both evs and fcevs. In contrast to vehicles powered by a conventional fossil fuel or biofuel based ice the energy storage system is of crucial importance for electric vehicles. Which is actually more efficient. Even canada where the fuel cell was invented doesn t have many hydrogen stations and zero hydrogen cars were sold in 2017 in that.

But it isn t a hydrogen vs. Both electric and hydrogen cars lack internal combustion engines and run on electricity instead of petrol or diesel. There is a company called nikola which claims they will sell semi trucks using hydrogen. Battery electric vehicle choice.

Selling electric cars is a breeze for tesla not so much for every other automaker. Battery electric cars start at 24 000 have several options below. Amazingly with virtually no revenue and no vehicles made nikola is worth over 22 billion. While electric cars run on batteries hydrogen cars run on fuel cells.

We look into. Electric cars are estimated to have about 35 of the car market by 2025 with 10 pure electric cars and 25 of hybrid cars according to harrop and das 2009. Hydrogen fuel cell cars. And while neither produce the harmful carbon emissions of a petrol or diesel engine they are different.

Hydrogen vehicles solve so many of the problems associated with battery electric cars and yet they have all but disappeared from the discussion on the future of the automobile.