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Tom Baxter

Hydrogen cars won’t overtake electric vehicles because they’re hampered by the laws of science

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Tom Baxter

Hydrogen has long been touted as the future for passenger cars. The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), which simply runs on pressurised hydrogen from a fuelling station, produces zero carbon emissions from its exhaust. It can be filled as quickly as a fossil-fuel equivalent and offers a similar driving distance to petrol. It has some heavyweight backing, with Toyota for instance launching the second-generation Mirai later in 2020.

It’s time to accept carbon capture has failed – here’s what we should do instead

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Tom Baxter

The problem is that the process is costly and energy intensive.