Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Derrin Brown asks How likely is it for Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to be adopted for longer haul transport?

The odds are very low. Hydrogen is not an energy source per se; it is a method of energy storage. To create hydrogen, you need to split water molecules, which itself requires energy.

There was a brief period several years ago when everyone was talking about hydrogen and the new hydrogen economy. That never happened. The fact is, hydrogen is dangerous and very difficult to work with. Creating an entire infrastructure around hydrogen would be very difficult and expensive.

We’ve already seen that batteries have been adopted at a much higher rate than hydrogen fuel cells. In fact, there really aren’t any hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the market today.