The hydrogen car revival

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The concept of the hydrogen-powered car has been around for decades, but still has yet to really take off. Vox’s Umair Irfan (@umairirfan) tells us about the past, the future, and the pitfalls of hydro-electric vehicles. Read Umair’s story: https://www.vox.com/recode/22973204/hydrogen-energy-power-toyota-mirai-climate-change Today’s episode was produced and engineered by Jon Ehrens and hosted by Rani Molla. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts We are conducting a short audience survey to hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.4	The warnings about climate change are getting more and more urgent with every passing day.
0:44.8	And people have been trying to figure out clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels for
0:48.1	many decades.
0:49.9	Let's consider a potential source of cheap energy that for most of the world is anything
0:54.7	but scarce.
0:56.0	Water.
0:57.0	It's the ultimate solution to pollution and the so-called energy crisis.
1:02.1	And we're not just talking about hydroelectric dams here.
1:05.1	We've been talking about hydrogen-powered cars since the 70s as a way to get us off gasoline.
1:09.8	The conventional engine should be replaced in the future by a hydrogen fuel cell which
1:14.6	produces electricity back.
1:17.0	So it's no wonder that for so long so many people have said,
1:20.6	hydrogen is the answer for today.
1:33.7	Fast forward to the 2020s and it feels like we've all but lost interest in hydrogen-powered
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