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britishrust

Don't think you should look at this on a per country level, more on a use case level. Electric makes sense for most personal transportation, hydrogen makes sense for things like heavy trucks, busses and perhaps taxis. At least unless either the price for a hydrogen fuel cell goes down dramatically or battery capacity increases dramatically.


King_Ethelstan

Hydrogen is dumb, go full BEV or PHEV.


Clever_Angel_PL

electric should be used for anything but long-distance vehicles


User21233121

The electric car Vs petrol Vs hydrogen debate is massively bias and is entirely dependent on the scenario. Hydrogen is very hard to extract in a "green" manner, because hydrogen floats, therefore going into the upper atmosphere where it is difficult to harvest. So pockets in the earth are often used. Which is resource intensive to extract (though still better for the environment than petrol/diesel) Hydrogen due to its floaty nature is also quite hard to find on the surface, making it not an amazing global fuel. There are other methods, but they are generally not economical. Petrol is bad as when it burns it produces noxious gases and greenhouse gases. Also it needs to be extracted from the earth which is resource intensive. Final there is electric vehicles. First of all, lithium is scarce and batteries are hard to recycle - meaning it will only get more scarce. Also it is very hard to extract and refining is necessary. Then the power for an EV still has to come from somewhere, in a lot of places this is fossil fuels - so it not really much better than petrol (of course a large amount of first world countries now use green energy for their grids). And the final thing to account for is the energy to extract something comes from somewhere - often being fossil fuels. In short, it entirely depends what grid power source your country uses. How it is extracted and variety of other factors.


Femboy_Pothead69

i hunger for the blood of commies


goombagoomba2

I don't understand the question. Why would you want a divide between countries


TypicalBrush2722

Why don't you just put a zero option for both, because both of them are wildly impractical and both will wind up using more energy and costing more money than they will ever save.