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To: TobagoJack who wrote (165265)	11/20/2020 9:32:28 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219194

Yes interesting. Elon Musk is a stubborn narrow-minded idiot with luck that somehow succeeded in his efforts until now having excellent PR capabilities and white lies. Soon GM Ford BMW and the likes will enter the EV field and Tesla will be a sitting duck. For unclear reasons GM and BMW had the EV capabilities already in 2016 as presented by me at an International Conference, why not entering then the EV market I presume they wanted some one else take the shot, and not engage in retooling and firing workers of the old guard. The only thing that Musk perceived was that luxury and convenience with gadgets sells - something that "Detroit" ignored and got stuck to the "redneck" culture of powerful pickups. Hydrogen v batteries is easy to discern. If you want to own a car to drive to work let it out in the parking lot and then drive back let say no more than 50 to 100km batteries make sense, you just fill the batteries when working from solar power as an example or the electrical network while working. On the other hand if you need long haul transportation, like trucks or busses that make a shift or trains without a overhead electrical supply then hydrogen is your choice as in practice 1kg of hydrogen in an IC diesel engine gives you 4 times the energy. As to price and separation of H2 from H2O it is getting cheaper by the day and with introduction of SMR's it will be just a side product and I expect to reach below $2 /kg wholesale. More so developing an appropriate high conversion (low losses) LOHC with about 15% H2 content it will hit the jackpot. Ammonia is not suitable due to the low conversion efficiency