Hydrogen vehicle registrations are flatlining across most of Europe -- with hundreds more filling stations on the way

[NickB79]

https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/exclusive-hydrogen-vehicle-registrations-are-flatlining-across-most-of-europe-with-hundreds-more-filling-stations-on-the-way/2-1-1592413

As previously reported by Hydrogen Insight, Europe’s largest hydrogen car market, Germany, saw an almost 70% reduction in new FCEV registrations in 2023.

However, the data from France shows that the country is becoming one of the most dynamic FCEV markets in Europe — although hydrogen vehicle sales are still tiny compared to those of battery-electric equivalents — with the UK and Czechia the only other European nations to have seen more than ten FCEV registrations per HRS last year.

In Switzerland, which has one of the largest concentrations of HRSs in Europe, total new registrations for FCEVs fell by 50%, with just 28 passenger cars and ten commercial vehicles registered last year, the Swiss Federal Office for Statistics tells Hydrogen Insight.

In comparison, the central European state registered 40,507 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in 2023.

[SarahD]

1. Wait and see.

So many Tesla owners feel like they were hoodwinked when they became early adopters. Many people will buy into electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles, hamster wheel powered vehicles, etc. if the infrastructure develops

[Caribbeans]

5. Take a look at the infrastructure in Europe already

https://h2.live/en/

And now Hydrogen Stations have been mandated every 200 Km on the new Ten T core network

Chinese provinces aim to install more than 1,200 hydrogen refuelling stations by end of next year: analyst. If the targets are achieved, the total would exceed the current number of H2 filling stations installed around the world

https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/chinese-provinces-aim-to-install-more-than-1-200-hydrogen-refuelling-stations-by-end-of-next-year-analyst/2-1-1592421

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2. Yep...

....EV sales in the U.S. are dropping in the last few months also. It seems internal combustion car sales have slacked off also.

[Caribbeans]

3. That poster thinks every single vehicle in the world must be powered by a 1300 pound battery

It's absurd.

We need battery cars, hydrogen cars and any other cars that will help get the world off of fossil fuels.

Anyone bashing hydrogen isn't really green at all. Some are invested in batteries - and then making investment decisions for the nation. It's outrageous.

https://archive.ph/iVPpZ

Page search "Philseok Kim"

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4. Yeah....

...the fossil fuel industry has quite a few suckers pushing it's BS, that's for sure, and not just people in high places.

There's a reason they hired the PR company that did so well for cigarettes.

[Caribbeans]

6. And the PR company that foisted Nayirah on us all

"Babies thrown out of Incubators" -Kuwaiti ambassador's Daughter lies to Congress in 1990

The Nayirah testimony was a false testimony given before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a 15-year-old girl who provided only her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized, and was cited numerous times by United States senators and President George H. W. Bush in their rationale to back Kuwait in the Gulf War. In 1992,

it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-Ṣabaḥ and that she was the daughter of Saud Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by an American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has come to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda.

In her emotional testimony, Nayirah stated that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

One of the biggest cons ever perpetrated on Americans. No one was held accountable.

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7. and how is the hydrogen made available nt