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Basically the disadvantages come down to storage, filling and range of the car based on capacity of the available fuel tanks.
- Hydrogen is transported in high pressure cylinders and tanks
- It is very dificult to store as a Liquid This means that as a gas you can't get very much inside a tank so to transport enough to run a car you need 3 to 5 times as many trucks, trains or pipe line capacity to supply it.
- The equiepment to pump the fuel from the storage tank into your car is expensive
- Finally to upgrade you will lose most of your trunk space and still only go about 1/3 as far on a tank.
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