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by Sendotsh 2407 days ago
> Dr Munnings is a strong advocate for a mix of hydrogen and electric vehicles.

> He explains that hydrogen may be better suited to long distance, back-to-base transport such as buses and long-haul trucks, while electric vehicles are a good solution for the light passenger vehicle market.

I feel like this is the most realistic solution in general, especially here in Australia. It's just not economically realistic to cover the country in electric chargers.

I think hydrogen trucks/busses/etc with refilling at their depots and truck stops, and electric for private use (with chargers at petrol stations once they get faster), is the ideal dream here.

I also think the "ICE cars will be sunsetted by 2040" is absolute bollocks. There's a huge amount of people who could never dream of buying a new car, or even a recent (last 10yrs) used one, and it will take a long long time before used EVs gain enough volume, and become cheap enough, to cover the lower income demographics. There's still plenty of people around here driving in cars from the 70s/80s/90s that they picked up for $5k and that was still hard for them to buy.

Are we going to suddenly say "too bad, you're too poor to afford the future we want"?

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mostly agree but market and economic forces may change the goalposts over time. Eg if the number of gas cars gets below a certain minimum the number of gas stations could diminish and the cost of gas will probably rise as demand falls, also the governments could screw up the gas taxes and emissions standards, think what happened to cigarettes!