[Ronsenshi]

China at this point has massive economy of scale when it comes to EV, so of course they will try to turn everything into EV.

From what I could find, it appears that there's about 100x times more funding that goes into EVs R&D than into HFCVs. One might think that there could be solutions to most if not all listen issues with hydrogen trucks if there was enough interest in that field from private sector and governments around the world.

I personally would prefer that there was better battery tech which would take less space, weight and have more density. But we are not there yet, so hydrogen to me seems like a decent solution for trucking industry if only it had something more than token R&D funding.

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But the problems with hydrogen are fundamental and inherent to it as a molecule, not something innovation can change.

- Energy required to get it from water is fixed.

- energy required to compress it (and got for it liquify it) is fixed.

- Explosion dangers and basically invisible flames are fixed.

- Difficulty in transporting are fixed.

> It appears that there’s about 100x time more funding.

That may be because battery technology has proven itself and has paths to scale (phone, laptops, battery storage, a million different consumer electronics) for any new advancement. While hydrogen has proven itself a failure time and time again and has no paths to scale.

At this point hydrogen powered anything are solutions in search of a problem.