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Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles
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Strange. I'm sure that H2 has benefits to larger vehicles like Trucks. But on small vehicles like forklifts, I thought that battery technology (even Lead-Acid batteries) were sufficient?
Did the H2 fuel cell shrink down in size recently to make forklift-sized vehicles usable for H2 fuel? This is a development that surprises me.
There are fuel cell powered drones out there. Size hasn't been an issue for a long time.
Do you know what the technology is for the pressurized H2 at these sizes? Its been my understanding that larger vehicles scale better (ie: thicker walls and bigger containers) to better deal with the H2 volume issue.
Bigger vehicles can take advantage of exotic / expensive processes like liquified H2 or 700-bar pressures or whatnot. I don't think that's been miniaturized to drone or forklift sizes though.
They're still using pressurized gas tanks. Apparently, not even a drone is not too small for such things.
What an edifying thread, thank you both for knowing stuff about things