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[toopy]

Hydrogen fuel cells will probably take over from full electric within the next decade or so.

Agree with that, i don't understand why we've (governments and manufacturers) have got tunnel vision with electric vehicles when Hydrogen can be used by the IC engines we already have.

 

[Geoff-R]

This is really being communicated hard today.

Just how efficient are these Hybrid cars? Unless they change the way official mpg figures are measured we'll never know apart from speaking to someone who has one.

My diesel Volvo XC60 is returning 45-46 mpg in the real world.

Hybrids are the biggest farce in the car industry. I got lumbered with a previous generation X5 hybrid as a company car prior to the current shape coming out. It worked brilliantly as a tax dodge but that's where it stopped being a benefit. It did 21-22mpg and there was no point in charging the batteries as they did about 15 miles on a full charge as long as you drove with the lightest foot possible. I would hazard a guess that people who own hybrids do not utilise them for anything other than a tax dodge.

 

[Bazzateer]

Agree with that, i don't understand why we've (governments and manufacturers) have got tunnel vision with electric vehicles when Hydrogen can be used by the IC engines we already have.

Don't hydrogen fuel cells usually produce electricity to drive electric cars?

 

[toopy]

Don't hydrogen fuel cells usually produce electricity to drive electric cars?

I was thinking of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle

Not as simple as i initially thought to produce, but none the less, stripping the planet of resources for batteries has gotta be worse?!