Hybrids delaying fuel cell vehicles, other technologies?
The fuel cell killer?The Motor Authority is reporting and backing up a report coming out of France that claims that hybrid vehicles are blocking fuel cell vehicles and other technologies. In addition, Motor Authority claims that clean diesel is much more fuel efficient than the Toyota Prius. Apparently, there are Prius-sized vehicles in France that achieve over 70 mpg in the worst stop-and-go traffic in Paris?
Likewise, it seems that America's hydrogen highway could be filling up tens of millions of fuel cell vehicles, the Motor Authority believes, if not for hybrids like the Prius. Oh, that's right, there is no hydrogen highway. And, let's forget that much of the electronics powering Toyota's fuel cell-killing Hybrid Synergy Drive also powers Toyota's FCVs. Isn't that odd?
Labels: fuel cells, Hybrid Vehicles
posted by Dahcredyns at
7:26 AM
3 Comments:
Notice "more fuel efficient," not better for the environment or less CO2. "Clean diesel" is better than regular diesel, but its still relatively dirty.
There's nothing stopping them from making a clean-diesel hybrid either. Just mate the electro-drive system with a different ICE.
Disel-theory is a bullshit. The real Prius-sized diesel makes 50 mpg at best. In traffic, it is usually less and about the same as Prius. Yep... but only the verions with a MECHANICAL transmission. Automatic is usually worse.
Ok, what's the problem? Diesel is just more efficient fuel. Make a hybrid-diesel (in fact there are some already) and you get 70 mpg, far ahead any non-hybrid diesel. And with automatic transmission.
So, it is not delaying diesel. Nor a serious technology to consider. As to fuel-cell elements, as far as I understand, we will be happy only with ethanol fuel cells, but where are they?
Doesn't it take more crude and more energy to make diesel fuel?
Also, people are using hybrid (the word) to mean only a specific battery/ICE blend of technologies...why so?
I do believe current hybrid technology is a stepping stone to something better. The technology is not standing still but until human greed and consumer stupidity is eliminated, not much we can do but wait for better things.
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