Who killed the electric car?

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

If there's any fossil fuel we're going to be taking hydrogen from in order to power fuel-cell based cars it's going to be natural gas, not oil. I mean, why would you ever replace the internal combustion engine with a less efficient alternative when you're going to be using the same fuel?

We haven't seen research into these alternatives because there's been no reason to do it. Oil is just so darned convenient and cheap that nobody sees a reason to sink billions of dollars into an alternative until that alternative is in really high demand.

Are hydrogen fuel cells like the most efficient thing in the world, though?

I think the problem comes in plating the electrodes (needed in every engine) with platinum. That's right, a part of every hydrogen fuel cell engine has to be coated with platinum.

That's not cheap.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Don't you get like ridiculous tax breaks for having a hybrid?

There's nowhere I can't reach.