Letter written to comment on a - too focussed - article on electric vehicles in the Listener that did not discuss alternatives.
The “Charge of the lite brigade” (November 23) on hybrid and electric vehicles made me wonder if buying one would have been like buying a plasma TV a few years ago: a nice idea but why buy something technically inferior to what you can see coming?Hydrogen, the “LCD technology” of motor vehicles, is close: Hyundai is scheduled to start selling a mass-market, hydrogen-powered vehicle next year, and Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and others are close behind. Hydrogen is clean – what comes out the exhaust is water vapour – and it can be clean to produce, unlike the polluting production of batteries. It’s also much easier to refuel, and the infrastructure required is only a fraction of the complexity of that required for electric vehicles: think of a hydrogen-fuelling system alongside the pumps at your petrol station.
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