(10 Jan 2023, 4:29 pm)Storx wrote Aye your right about the generation but I'm sure they'll eventually find a way around that. Not sure the bus companies care too much about the efficiency etc it'll be more about price and well actually being usable especially when it comes to HGV's as it just won't work electric charging ever as they don't have the time to just park up every 200KM or so.

But then again like you said we can't just connect every single car and bus to the grid either otherwise we'd have black outs. So whatever way we go for we need to change things and considering we have the cost of living crisis literally because of lack of gas which we use to power the grid then it's a major problem we need to sort regardless. No doubt by nuclear which won't go down with the environmentalists.

Efficiency = cost though.

One way I can see hydrogen 'beating' battery in buses is in the cost of the vehicle.
The biggest cost of a BEV is in the name, the battery!

To scale up the range of a BEV, you scale up the battery, which requires scaling up every part of it.

To scale up the range of a HEV, you just need to scale up the site of the tank, the expensive part (the fuel cell) stays the same.

Now, a hydrogen fuel cell isn't exactly cheap, but when the costs come down, I could envisage them dropping at a much higher rate than batteries will continue to.

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