Sounds suspiciously like Tesla's Supercharger network, except without the benefit and ease of charging at home for most of your charging.GRA said:I've devoted considerable time to studying it, and you could provide a good basic infrastructure for California's major highways with just 20-25 stations spaced every 100-150 miles, not counting those in urban areas. 300+ miles of range eases the siting problems considerably.
In fact, Tesla will have about 25 Superchargers locations in California by the end of the year.
No need to wait for fuel cells, just go buy a Model S!
By the time the first production fuel cell vehicles start hitting the showroom floors, Tesla will have finished building enough Superchargers to cover the entire nation (not to mention most of Europe, Japan and probably good portions of China) and will be ready to launch it's Gen-3 sedan - all at a cost less than to similar to a fuel cell vehicle, but without the hassle of having to fuel up at a rare hydrogen fueling station regularly.
I only really see fuel cells working for medium to long-haul trucking applications where you need a lot of energy density. But then most of that should really be moved to rail, anyway.