You need to understand what Consumer’s is trying to pull - the same stunt as what utilities in Ohio have tried pulling - they’re complaining that they can’t plan for capacity when consumers can change providers, pulling a chicken little stunt to bring in calls for elimination of choice in the name of energy…

And despite claimed backlog, no one seems to be having trouble getting plants built in short order.

Don’t let facts get in the way of your neocon distopia while you demand that you keep polluting the environment with emissions and waste from ancient, inefficient, uncompetitive coal plants.

Aren’t you a pessimist?

It’s pretty easy to build a natural gas plant in the location of a decommissioned coal plant....

Want to take wagers on your shortages? ‘Cause they ain’t gonna happen.

Sure - but you also would need a place to refill a hydrogen car. Adding outlets is much cheaper than a hydrogen refuelling infrastructure.

Don’t panic about the lost capacity, though - it won’t be hard to make up for it - one of the many reasons natural gas power plants are winning in the market is that they can be…

Efficiency on the battery doesn’t change significantly with age, just range.

Life of a fuel cell will highly depend on the type of cell and the fuel used. Some exist that will easily outlast a battery, but the ones going into cars and buses today typically actually have a lower lifespan than a Tesla or Volt battery -…

Because a fuel cell gets its hydrogen from one of two primary methods - electrolysis or natural gas reformation - both of which are inefficient and consume significant amounts of energy. That same energy could be used more directly and efficiently in powering the vehicle directly in an EV.

See Figs 13 & 14 for total…

no, no, no -

Voltage doesn’t matter.

CURRENT matters.

Many, many moons ago I built a plugged-in high voltage power supply for a class - it reached up to 26,000 volts. At that voltage, though, it could barely produce 4 milliamps. Basically it just gave you a tingle.

That’s why a normal static shock which reaches 20,000 V…

If they can get the charge time down like that, this is evidence that hydrogen fuel cells may never see any significant production numbers - their only current advantage is in refuelling time - they’re less efficient than a straight out EV... and if they lose the refuelling advantage, their niche disappears... after…

Why get a sedan? Because they’re underrated.

Wagons pretty much don’t exist anymore unless you’re willing to shell out some serious cash. So its a CUV, hatch, minivan, or sedan as practical choices. Hatches seem like great options with great accessibility, but too many makers doom them by building them with negligible…

Ugh.... I forgot how hideous these things were. Not particularly well made, either.

Yeah - and that’s a completely different vehicle than an Ecoboost.

You’re talking about a plugin hybrid. And EVERY single electric vehicle or plugin hybrid loses range when you’re using the heat. That has NOTHING to do with Ecoboost mpg ratings.

I’ve hit as high as 48 mpg over a 50 mile flat stretch in a Fusion with a 1.5L. Just stay off heavy throttle use and avoid the brakes. :)

“Driving fast” isn’t exactly what gets you bad mpg. You’ll get bad mpg in an Ecoboost if you accelerate hard. So that fool that jumps out at the green light to get up to 35 mph is killing their mpg compared to someone who accelerates more slowly but still drives at the same 35 mph.

And being chronically late doesn’t…

Having driven several ecoboosts over hundreds of miles as rentals, the only reason people aren’t getting the EPA mileage is their own driving habits. Keep it easy on the throttle and you can easily beat those marks.

On the other hand, what right does any public official, elected or appointed, have in directing the university when the state provides virtually no financial support for the university anymore and is years behind in paying the few bills it actually has agreed to pay?

UIUC is essentially a private school now in all but…

Is it, really?

A 1999 Toyota Camry LE had an MSRP, including destination, of $20,278.

A 2016 Toyota Camry LE has an MSRP, including destination, of $23,905

That’s only a 0.973% annual increase in price. Inflation has averaged 2.25% since then, even though you’re getting a lot more features on the car.

Cars aren’t going up…

Yep - and while fuel cells have come down in price, so have batteries.

The cost for a battery for a Volt when it first came out? Generally it was stated at around $10-12k. Just a few short years later and the price is about $2,400 from GM.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells have been in a race with batteries - and while they have been…

Finally experimenting with it?

They’ve been actively working on it for MANY years.

Ford and Daimler-Benz went in together with Ballard systems in 1997 to invest ~$1 billion into fuel cell development. That JV is actually where Honda and Toyota got their first fuel cells from. Ford and Daimler bought out the auto side of…

Not exactly.

Hydrogen is produced by using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This process is generally only around 80-90% efficient at best. Fuel cells are generally only about 40-60% efficient.

So lets take the best two cases there, shall we? That gives you 90%*60% = 54% total efficiency.

I’m sure some would lean towards the size of the Explorer. But the sales figures don’t lie - the demand has completely inverted from where it was - the market share is heavily controlled by Escape/Rav4/CR-V sized vehicles, not Explorer/Blazer/Grand Cherokee sized vehicles.