Who is the future development direction of hydrogen fuel cell or solid-state lithium battery?
As a clean, efficient, safe and sustainable new energy, hydrogen energy is regarded as the clean energy with the most development potential in the 21st century and is the strategic energy development direction for human beings. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have many characteristics such as no pollution, low energy consumption, long range and wide applicability to the region, and have entered the stage of small-scale commercialization and promotion. Industry insiders believe that the hydrogen energy industry is expected to enter an explosive period in the next three to five years, i.e. around 2020. Compared with solid-state lithium batteries, the biggest advantage of fuel cells is their high energy density, which is 120 times higher than that of lithium batteries.
The solid-state lithium battery starts early, commercialization is higher, the cost of the whole vehicle is lower, and charging can use the existing grid system, compared with the fuel cell, the whole hydrogen refueling and supply network has to be built from scratch, and the cost is also lower. Therefore, the core of competition between these two is the competition of energy density vs. cost.
Which is better, hydrogen fuel cell or lithium battery?
The development of Li-ion battery has been on the right track, both in Europe, America and Korea, Japan and China have started to industrialize; the development of fuel cell is still in the primary stage, but there are still many "pain points" about cost and safety, which need a long time to solve. The main factors of hydrogen fuel cell are: safety and high cost, but its advantages are environmental protection and wide range of fuel.
From the industrial point of view, the industrialization of solid-state lithium batteries has been completed, and it is more likely to pull other industries to form a network development. Given the scale of investment that countries around the world have already paid on lithium batteries, it is difficult for hydrogen fuel cells to become the mainstream direction, at least for the last ten years or so. It is more likely to be used as a form of technology supplement to lithium batteries.
At present, lithium battery and fuel cell are the mainstream technologies that are expected to replace petroleum vehicles, and both of them have their own advantages, and both have great room for progress. If lithium battery can improve its energy density and optimize the cycle life, it will be more competitive; the core technology of hydrogen fuel cell, the huge cost of vehicle and hydrogen refueling station construction, safety and other issues are still huge bottlenecks for industrial development. From the perspective of environmental protection and sustainable development, hydrogen fuel cell has more development prospect than lithium battery, but from the perspective of short-term economic benefits, the development of lithium battery is more competitive in the market than hydrogen fuel cell.
Solid-state lithium battery has high safety and high energy density characteristics, while hydrogen fuel cell technology is basically mature and meets environmental protection requirements. With the subsidies for electric vehicles declining and the subsidies for fuel cell vehicles remaining unchanged, which technology route represents the future of new energy vehicles, solid-state lithium batteries or hydrogen fuel cells?
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