Thread: Full Electric LDV ute

Why add all that extra infrastructure when you have the energy sitting there ready to go? Its why hydrogen wont replace batteries. All the backend is ready for battery, in order to put in hydrogen you then need generation, transport, storage and filling. Then there is the saftey bureaucracy that will come with all of that. End of the road, it will cost a lot more.

Originally Posted by Konev

Why add all that extra infrastructure when you have the energy sitting there ready to go? Its why hydrogen wont replace batteries. All the backend is ready for battery, in order to put in hydrogen you then need generation, transport, storage and filling. Then there is the saftey bureaucracy that will come with all of that. End of the road, it will cost a lot more.

Because the backend is not ready for higher capacity battery charging. Our infrastructure isn't capable of handling the increased requirements for more amps. I know of a building who's boilers are about f**ked, they're gas powered. They are not allowed to get replacement gas ones, but power circuits in the street don't carry enough power. As the requirements for EVs to have more range, more load (e.g SUVs and trucks) goes up, the infrastructure cannot cope. The whole thing is more complex that you might think.

Originally Posted by vulcannz

Because the backend is not ready for higher capacity battery charging. Our infrastructure isn't capable of handling the increased requirements for more amps. I know of a building who's boilers are about f**ked, they're gas powered. They are not allowed to get replacement gas ones, but power circuits in the street don't carry enough power. As the requirements for EVs to have more range, more load (e.g SUVs and trucks) goes up, the infrastructure cannot cope. The whole thing is more complex that you might think.

....not to mention the number of existing ICE vehicles on the road that could be retrofitted to run hydrogen - if the infrastructure was in place. Electric vehicles look to be more of a bad evolutionary joke (kind of like what a pug is in canine evolutionary terms) rather than a proper solution.

Originally Posted by Nickoli

...kind of like what a pug is in canine evolutionary terms

Pearler of a explanation

Its a dog...but not as we know it

Just like the Health system etc etc etc, our Electrical transmission is struggling just to deliver existing demand. Abso fricken lutely no ability to expand currently

Originally Posted by Nickoli

....not to mention the number of existing ICE vehicles on the road that could be retrofitted to run hydrogen - if the infrastructure was in place. Electric vehicles look to be more of a bad evolutionary joke (kind of like what a pug is in canine evolutionary terms) rather than a proper solution.

I'd love to have hydrogen, but as I understand it it comes with it's own issues around fuel storage - the stuff is hard to contain. Maybe hydrogen fuel cells will be the way forward.