Innovative! Economical! Expensive!
In the April 2020 issue Gavin Green laments the demise of the BMW i8 and wonders how this can happen. The short answer is a current price tag north of £111,000.
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The nuclear option
Douglas Ponsford (letters, March) advocates hydrogen as a car fuel. I used to think that hydrogen is the fuel of the future. It doesn’t involve heavy batteries. However, while you can make hydrogen from water using electrolysis, it is much cheaper to make it from petrochemicals. It’s a fossil fuel, guys.
Biofuel, anyone? We’d probably need to slaughter 90 per cent of the people on the planet so we could use the land previously used for food to grow biomass. Come in, cold (or hot) fusion. We need you now.
Mike Franklin
Required: one visionary
Please can we hurry up with the hydrogen infrastructure? But we need the cars to justify the infrastructure and vice versa. We need a fuel cell visionary along the lines of Elon Musk.
Like many people I don’t have a driveway, so a battery EV is going to be impractical for me for a long time. With a quick top-up with hydrogen, a fuel cell car is a much more
