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Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
(www.autoexpress.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Yeah 4 hours before you have to charge for hours isn’t very good. Not to mention what they’re made out of.
You know that fast chargers exist, right? In my car it usually takes less than 15 minutes before I'm good for another 4 hours. Charging for hours is only when I'm at home, but then I'm sleeping or something... By the time I need it again it's full.
Yeah having a battery with a fixed amount of cycles is insane in something as expensive as a car. Who’s going to buy a used car with 60% battery life? Hydrogens the way to go.
You vastly overestimate that. It's not a fixed number of cycles, it's a number before significant degradation. In other words, after you've spent ~8000 hours driving, you'll have to recharge about 40 minutes earlier.
If you think your ICE car is still top shape after that long, go ahead man... But in all likelihood, it's burning a little oil, it's not as quick as it used to be, the transmission has a weird clunk in third, etc... nothing mechanical works forever, and yes that includes hydrogen.
Hydrogen, by the way, is the worst of both worlds... It solves a very minor issue (charging on road trips) while introducing a whole lot of new ones. The infrastructure for it is non-existent, it's still a lot of mechanical parts (if you're talking about the ICE version) or pretty niche technology (if you're talking about fuel cells), it's a nightmare to store, and it's probably still produced from fossil fuels.
There's a reason BEVs have caught on, and hydrogen hasn't.