I wonder why whenever we hear about a hydrogen powered car the author of the article always has to mention that the hydrogen comes from natural gas which means CO2 is released but when mentioning electric vehicles no one ever seems to point out that most electricity is made by burning coal?
It seems to me that it doesn't really matter what we power our car with the important first step is to make vehicles not burn carbon containing fuels. Once we have that situation it's much easier to start talking about decarbonizing the power generation system.
Personally, I think the ultimate car would be a combination of battery (or more likely super capacitor) and fuel cell. The fuel cell would provide the base load power and fast refuelling and the battery / capacitor would fill in the power spikes. I can't think of any car with this design though so perhaps it's uneconomical.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
