Hi Nathan, I was thinking of 700 bar tanks with 3 per car and several hundred million cars (not just Camrys) being made with these tanks. As with you, I would not want to be in or near such a car when it let go. The longer they are in a car, they will likely age and develop cracks.
There was a reference to a company called Plastic Kinetics that has developed a way of storing hydrogen on thin film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEm4mEizns If this is true and viable, it "solves" one of the major road blocks to adoption; the storage of hydrogen at reasonable pressures. The other major problems have been the use of platinum in creating PEM fuel cells and the production of hydrogen. There has been a lot of hype on the later. Until I can go into a dealer, buy a HFCEV, and drive to some remote part of the country and not worry about a hydrogen supply, I'm sticking with a BEV. At least with a Tesla, there were a number of occasions where the Tesla where you can be in the middle of nowhere and recharge. Hope this helps. Peter On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 6:18 PM nathan christiansn via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Manufacturing defects in a Camry? I?m not sure what you are talking about. > No Camrys involved. Tanks get tested. If you are trying to imply that they > are dangerous, well so is everything. Risks get managed. Some get managed > better than others. Batteries have their own risks, too, as does any other > energy storage mechanism. > > Umm… here’s the problem. Having a 5,000 PSI hydrogen storage tank sitting > under your hood is like having 50 pounds of tannerite sitting in your trunk > at all times. If you get into an accident and that hydrogen tank is > damaged, the results will be catastrophic to say the least. Yes, lithiums > have their risks too, but they are still a lot safer than a 5000 PSI vessel > full of flammable gas. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210815/4bbde56f/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
