Tax payer money has been wasted on this.

I get annoyed when articles talk about one of hydrogen’s problems being a lack of infrastructure to deliver the fuel. Of course there’s not today since there’s no demand for it. If the cars start to develop as a market then the infrastructure would be built as well. The same thing has happened with electric cars. But it would take some entity investing in the infrastructure and being willing to wait years to see a return on the investment.

Of course, hydrogen has a lot of other problems that mean it’s probably not viable. Lack of infrastructure is just a weak argument against it.

I love this game but my god so much DLC

Korean companies has invested in hydrogen cars, which is why it will never going to be a thing.

Ideally there are no harmful combustion byproducts when used in ICE, the reality is probably less harmful combustion byproducts, not none Hydrogen is lossy, Conversions being inefficient, Molecules small enough to migrate from containment, Embrittlement of pipes & tanks
3 or more times the infrastructure per watt delivered, a huge investment in resources
I suppose if there is excess generating capacity, hydrogen could be used as a storage medium for night time

As noted in the article comments, not only are all of the theoretical benefits just not realized, but it's also nothing but greenwashing since hydrogen is a byproduct of fossil fuel production ("green hydrogen" seems like a pipedream.

Now if only the US wasn't slowly shooting itself in all ten toes with EV production and renewable energy policies....

Took them long enough

I'm m happy that they're giving up on a non-feasible idea, but I'm so fucking sad that they are giving up on the larger hope of finding a post-fossil-fuel alternative to displace the ICE (also, fuck ICE in both contexts)

Turns out lugging millions of heavy metal boxes around is a tough thing to make climate friendly

I wonder if we were developing petroleum refining and engines now instead of them being established and subsidised, if we would also find them to be unfeasible. I know petroleum products are ludicrously energy dense, but the whole process to make it usable is pretty intense, the infrastructure needed to get it everywhere is extensive, it leaks, it burns, and it smells bad.

It would be interesting to see the modern day cost associated with building out and maintaining gas infrastructure for cars

Finally, there's virtually no infrastructure for hydrogen road vehicles to refuel.

I would argue this is by far the biggest issue with hydrogen fuel. Other drawbacks could arguably be addressed with scale and additional work.

It's just that hydrogen actually kinda sucks as a fuel, and automaker Stellantis announced today that it is ending the development of its light-, medium- and heavy-duty FCEVs, which were meant to go into production later this year.

Meant to go in production later this year? I doubt anyone at Stellantis believed this.

I bought stocks of Ballard Power years ago when hydrogen cells were going to be The Next Big Thing. Not many stocks thankfully, because it slipped further and further and then got delisted. It seems to be one of those things like airships that gets revived every 20 years or so.