Is there a place for hydrogen?

摘要

Battery-electric sales are on the rise but so is industry interest in hydrogen vehicles. The rapid growth in EV sales over the past few months has been well documented, with zero-emissions models now accounting for 4.9% of UK market share for the year to date. It's still modest but significantly more than the 1.1% share from the same period last year and - notably - means so far in 2020, EVs have outsold plug-in hybrids, so often called "the bridge technology" to EV adoption. But those figures of low-emissions vehicle sales, published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), have one obvious powertrain missing: hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, or FCEVs. That's because their numbers are so minimal that sales wouldn't even account for 0.01% market share. In 2019, 68 FCEVs were sold, almost double that of 2018. So far this year, 19 have been registered.