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    Reminder to everyone in this thread: BEVs are a doomed technology. The fundamental high cost and resource requirements of the battery dooms it to inevitable failure. Luckily, superior technology like FCEVs are coming along now. They won’t have this problem. So if you actually cared about solving climate change, you’ll endorse FCEVs, just like any other kind of zero emission car. Even if you don’t agree with me, you should still support anything that can get us off of fossil fuels. There is no coherent reason to oppose green technology after all.

    But of course, this is not the case. Many people here have either been brainwashed by Elon Musk, or have some financial motive like investments in BEV companies. As a result, they do not care for any kind of alternative to the BEV. They only want the BEV. And they will lie and BS endlessly to prop up their favored technology.

    Unfortunately, reality does not care for your opinions. The BEV is a dead-end, and always will be. You can’t save it by lying to yourself or others. You have no choice to admit the truth. By not doing so, you are just becoming another group of conspiracy theorists or science deniers. We make fun of anti-vaxxers or climate deniers, and eventually we will make fun of hydrogen deniers. That is the eventual outcome if you cannot change your mind.

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        Last I checked, a lot of countries are planning to ban all competing technologies, or subsidizing BEVs to an insane amount. If you realize that this is basically a doomed strategy, then your next act is pretty obvious.

        In the end, our motivation is about solving climate change. And we see a lot of brainwashed fools wasting their time and money on a dead-end idea that won’t work. It’s pretty much impossible not to bring up the alternative. Not doing so would be a major moral failure on our own part. So it has to be brought up. Guys like you are just annoyed that someone is telling you something you don’t want to hear.

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      I’m all for FCEVs but they are a long way off from mass consumption simply because you can’t fuel them at home like you can with a BEV. They need to seriously start building out hydrogen fueling stations for then be considered a viable alternative.

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        That’s a motivation for building them out as quickly as possible. Saying that it is an excuse to not doing anything really reveals that you’re not being serious about stopping climate change.

        After all, millions of people will need some kind of public charging/refuel system anyways. So it’s not like this problem can be ignored.

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      I don’t see why something that works today won’t tomorrow. I got a BEV for years (Renault Zoe), rode it under a lot of rain, never got any problem.

      At worst this only shows a lack of quality from Tesla, not from the whole industry.

      FCEV has a lot of downside that BEV don’t, and same goes the other way. Those two technologies are complementary, but FCEVs lack the necessary infrastructure, be it for distribution or production.

      Currently, most of the hydrogen used comes from fossil fuel as current electrolysis technologies have too much loss of potential energy, and has to be sold at a far higher price than fossil fuel based hydrogen as a result.

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        Once these BEVs get older and more corroded, we will see a lot of issues.

        FCEVs have massive advantages over BEVs. They are just some years away from mass production and adoption.

        Most arguments against them are years or even decades out of date. There isn’t anything holding back green hydrogen anymore. It will be both widespread and cheap pretty soon. It is basically following the same cost curve as wind, solar, even batteries themselves.

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      Reminder to everyone in this thread:

      Anyone who starts off their post with stuff like this is probably an idiot that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

      These are the folks who never touch grass.

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          Maybe stop insulting everyone who disagrees with you. That’s how children behave. Not adults.

          You are genuinely mentally ill. Get help.

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              You’re the one rabidly pushing a technology that nobody is buying for some reason.

              As soon as anybody disagrees with you (which is basically everyone) you respond with irrational anger, hate and swearing.

              That’s not normal. It’s not healthy.

              You need help. Get it.

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      If you actually cared about the environment, you’d walk, bike or take transit. Cars are bad for cities, people and ecology

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        Actually yes. Cars are for special purposes. They should not be driven that much.

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      aS A meCHAnIC, all vehicles are doomed. You want green, advocate for trollies.

      Heavier vehicles also eat up tires quicker and put more micro plastics into the environment.

      I heard one of the byproducts of desalinization is hydrogen. If that’s what’s powering the cars, and we’re going to run out of drinking water that seems like a win win in my book.