Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted on June 10 last year that fuel cell batteries are stupid. In other words, the fuel cell model is the IQ tax, but at present many countries are encouraging the development of fuel cell vehicles, and even Toyota, Hyundai and other car companies are also increasing investment and layout in the research and development of fuel cell vehicles, which is completely different from Musk saying that fuel cells are IQ taxes, so is the fact that fuel cells are IQ taxes?
To identify this problem needs to know what is a fuel cell, fuel cells and traditional ternary lithium batteries are different, from the structure and work of the battery to carry out the corresponding analysis, the structure of the fuel cell is more complex, the fuel cell is to generate energy by generating and using the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, while the water vapor as the only emission.
Unlike lithium batteries of chemical raw materials, there is no need to deal with the impact of battery obsolescence or scrapping in the later stage, but fuel cells always have some disadvantages, the biggest problem is that there is no good solution for the safe storage of hydrogen, plus the particularity of hydrogen fuel, after being added to the fuel cell, making the fuel cell more sensitive to the environment. This has also become a huge problem facing fuel cells at present.
Although Musk said that fuel cells are IQ taxes, but the current battery technology is not perfect, it makes some sense to say so, but when the popularity and advent of electric vehicles that year, it was still not optimistic.
In short, standing in the existing technical level and other aspects to see fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells for cars do have some problems to solve, indeed a bit of IQ tax meaning, fuel cells themselves are very perfect, helpless to consider safety, storage costs are too high, if there is a breakthrough in storage technology, the future is a chance. At present, hydrogen fuel cells still have a long way to go, and if they can be realized, it is definitely a good thing.