Tax payer money has been wasted on this.
Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development
Submitted 8 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.zip
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/07/stellantis-abandons-hydrogen-fuel-cell-development/
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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
AlexLost@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As in all types of research, yes. Some of it proves to be a good idea and gets wider adoption, some of it falls by the wayside. No one can predict which one it’s going to be until the dust settles, so yes some money will get “wasted” but not in the same way as say, a politician’s salary where they spend all their time stopping things from happening and don’t actually do anything or achieve anything. That’s a waste of taxpayer dollars.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I love this game but my god so much DLC
Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Same
jqubed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I get annoyed when articles talk about one of hydrogen’s problems being a lack of infrastructure to deliver the fuel. Of course there’s not today since there’s no demand for it. If the cars start to develop as a market then the infrastructure would be built as well. The same thing has happened with electric cars. But it would take some entity investing in the infrastructure and being willing to wait years to see a return on the investment.
Of course, hydrogen has a lot of other problems that mean it’s probably not viable. Lack of infrastructure is just a weak argument against it.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Eh one of hydrogen issues is that it’s so tiny building said infrastructure is difficult so it’s not necessarily a bad argument either
someacnt@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Korean companies has been invested in hydrogen cars, which is why it will never going to be a thing.