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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
There's an easy answer. Elon Musk.
Had he pushed hydrogen, that's where we would be now, and likely further along. However, he isn't a fan of hydrogen, went all in on electric and now everyone is catching up.
If Honda or Toyota or GM had gone all in on Hydrogen 15 years ago it would be the standard. They spent too much time "playing with it" while protecting their legacy business model.
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Musk is just the most recent in a long line of people/companies resisting the use. The big oil companies were the first to counter it and try to prove it was not usable and it has just been passed on from there. Fuel cells were developed way back in the 50s and have been used in the space program right from the start.
It is used quite extensively for fleet operations in Europe for about 10 years now so it is completely possible even with todays storage and handling methods.
It is fun to read all the comments of "it takes so much energy and waste to create compared to fossil fuels" since they tend to ignore the impact of drilling for, transporting and processing crude oil for gasoline.
We are looking at using hydrogen in one of our manufacturing processes so I have had to do some deep research. I have found that a lot of what I thought I knew was really more oil company/Musk propaganda than fact.