Hyundai pauses Genesis hydrogen fuel cell project just days after ending ICE engines

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Lots of folks still don't believe the ICE age is over. Oil companies especially it seems. But after Volvo announced they would be 100% electric just a few years ago,most of the other companies have followed suit.

Everyone knows hydrogen is done for because of infrastructure limitations. Not to mention the higher costs of ICE hydrogen engines for maintenance to the end users.

Excerpt:

"It’s always been our view that hydrogen won’t find a place in consumer electric vehicles. Battery cars are not only better at the time being, but BEVs are also getting better more quickly than hydrogen cars are. There are many more technological and infrastructure difficulties with hydrogen than with battery cars, and fuel cells offer few benefits over BEVs even in the best theoretical scenarios.

It’s possible that fuel cells might find a home in heavy transport applications in the medium-long term, depending on how things go with energy density development for batteries. For heavy commercial vehicles like long haul trucks, planes, ships, and so on, hydrogen does have high energy density, can be produced cleanly (though it isn’t right now), and offers many benefits when compared to burning fossil fuels.

But we think Hyundai’s decision to pause their hydrogen passenger development is probably the right one, and we expect that if they keep an eye on the same metrics, they’ll just put an axe in the whole project as it becomes more apparent BEV is the way to go."

Source with more:

https://electrek.co/2021/12/29/hyundai-pauses-genesis-hydrogen-fuel-cell-project-just-days-after-ending-ice-engines/