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The comparative cost of hydrogen fuel-cell cars versus battery EVs depends on which infrastructure costs are counted and to whom they are allocated

Drawn from what Michael Liebreich said

Subjectsinfrastructurebatterieselectric vehicles
What these subjects mean

infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

batteries Storage as the thing that decides how much intermittent generation is worth building.

electric vehicles Cars on batteries: adoption forecasts, what drag and weight cost, and what they do to oil demand.

What Michael Liebreich actually said

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  1. Michael Liebreich

    Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance

    The only way you can make H2FC cars look cheaper than BEVs is to underestimate or ignore the cost of hydrogen production and infrastructure, socialise it, and then load the entire cost of grid build-out onto the marginal BEV.

    Where this was said

    ↗Are BEVs more expensive than H2FC cars?liebreich.com

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