Kawasaki electric + hydrogen bike details

3 kWh battery capacity on the straight-electric model? Really? That's ... underwhelming.

I'm guessing the range will be about 30 - 40 km at highway speed, significantly better around town.

I'm not sure who's asking for a hybrid ... seems like a very complex answer to a question few people are asking.

Don't get me started on the use of hydrogen in a combustion engine.
 
bigpoppa said:
What do you mean?
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Hard to find a less efficient process. You are just stacking inefficient processes in the name of green washing or innovation. If you feel the need to use hugely inefficient hydrogen, it needs to pass through a fuel cell which has something in the order of 60% efficiency instead of 35% in ice.
 
GreyGhost said:
If you feel the need to use hugely inefficient hydrogen, it needs to pass through a fuel cell which has something in the order of 60% efficiency instead of 35% in ice.
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It's worse than that. A combustion engine might hit 35% at best, but in a motor vehicle, it spends a lot of time operating "off design" in conditions giving poorer efficiency and sometimes zero (idling). And, hydrogen is a terrible fuel for a combustion engine, so odds are, the efficiency will be even worse. And for all that, high temp + oxygen + nitrogen = NOx, so it will still have emission controls to deal with that.

If you are going to use hydrogen to propel a vehicle other than in outer space, it needs to be via fuel cell.
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