Hydrogen vehicles face price and safety hurdles
H2X to produce 20,000 hydrogen vehicles in Port Kembla Hydrogen vehicles and hydrogen fuel currently very expensive Key to success is price parity with conventional vehicles and dispelling safety fears With media reports touting the return of automotive manufacturing in Australia through “clean, green” hydrogen-powered cars, one has to ask, is it all just hot air? Hydrogen is produced from natural gas reforming (a thermal process), and electrolysis, in which the hydrogen is produced when water is broken down. Other methods include solar-driven and biological processes. In hydrogen-fuelled cars, hydrogen gas and oxygen are drawn from the atmosphere into the…