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is not for us,” he said. “No. Hydrogen is pure physics and it’s expensive. It’s not competitive, especially not for passenger cars, whose tanks take up space in the cabin. Maybe for commercial vehicles, but not in the passenger car. So, I don’t see this happening in this decade. Not at Volkswagen.”
This isn’t the first time that Volkswagen has scoffed at the idea of using hydrogen powertrains in passenger cars. Three years ago, Volkswagen Passenger Cars technical chief Matthias Rabe also said that fuel-cell technology is not an option for VW.wasn’t always so opposed to the idea of hydrogen-powered passenger cars. In 2014, it unveiled both the Passat HyMotion and Golf Estate HyMotion prototypes and once planned on putting them into production.
VW Group brand Audi had also long been a proponent of hydrogen-powered cars. The company developed a series of fuel-cell prototypes and concepts but in 2021, concluded that hydrogen didn’t have a future.
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