With so many industry forces pushing to put fuel cells into vehicles to generate electricity locally to power what effectively becomes a range extended EV, it always seemed a missing link that large utility scale fuel cells weren’t being developed and tested. After all, the electrical transmission grid already exists as opposed to building a hydrogen distribution infrastructure from scratch. Plus, the idea of driving around with a 5000 psi hydrogen storage tank in a car seems …. extremely risky.

Only down side I can see to utility scale Fuel Cells is their energy efficiency isn’t much better than a conventional turbine plant with 50% of the energy in the fuel still becoming a heat byproduct.

With so many industry forces pushing to put fuel cells into vehicles to generate electricity locally to power what effectively becomes a range extended EV, it always seemed a missing link that large utility scale fuel cells weren’t being developed and tested. After all, the electrical transmission grid already exists as opposed to building a hydrogen distribution infrastructure from scratch. Plus, the idea of driving around with a 5000 psi hydrogen storage tank in a car seems …. extremely risky.

Only down side I can see to utility scale Fuel Cells is their energy efficiency isn’t much better than a conventional turbine plant with 50% of the energy in the fuel still becoming a heat byproduct.