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Why don't we use hydrogen as fuel in automobiles?

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Because hydrogen is a terrible fuel. To understand why hydrogen is thoroughly unappealing as a fuel, you have to think about all of the things that make a decent option for fuel. Hydrogen has exactly one advantage: 1. it burns clean. read more

Once the pure hydrogen is produced, we run into the second reason for its slow adoption – the fact that it is hard to store hydrogen for use in vehicles. The main issue with storage is that at normal temperatures and pressures hydrogen is a gas. read more

The production is more of an issue, as commercially there is no point in making a hydrogen car until there are hydrogen filling stations and there is no point in making filling stations until there are enough cars to make it viable. read more

Hydrogen storage is the biggest problem. It takes up a lot of space even when compressed. read more

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