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Electric and hydrogen cars… a race towards clean energy

The global shift towards changing the pattern of fuel consumption has become a catalyst for finding alternative sources of energy that fulfill the daily needs of citizens, including cars. Therefore, the goal during the past years was to gradually move towards electric cars, which are powered by environmentally friendly electric batteries. Which increased its market share in the European Union countries to 9.9% of the total registrations of private cars during the second quarter of this year. This is at the expense of conventional fuel vehicles (diesel and gasoline), whose market share fell from total registrations to 55.8%, compared to 62% during the corresponding period of last year.

Despite the growth that electric cars have achieved – albeit not by much at the level of all countries of the world – there are other options currently on the market that can compete with electric cars. Green hydrogen cars have become a trend often thought by many governments, including Egypt, which seeks to expand the production of this type of energy alternative to traditional fuels and electric batteries.

Hydrogen is a flammable gas, colorless, tasteless and odorless. As for hydrogen as an element, it is one of the most abundant elements in the form of gas in the vast universe and in the form of hydrocarbon compounds or in the form of water that covers more than 70% of the surface of our blue planet.
Electric and hydrogen cars
Over the past few years, countries around the world, including Egypt, have started groping for ways to spread the use of cars powered by clean, alternative fuels. In order to be able to catch up with the global trend towards clean energy, as part of efforts to combat global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions.

For this, according to Abu Bakr El-Deeb, an economist, governments have begun to move directly towards electric cars.
But until now, the expansion of this type of car remains limited. For many reasons, the most important of which is the high cost of purchasing electric cars. Electric cars are also powered by the energy provided by rechargeable batteries through the stations and centers attached to the cities within the infrastructure, which are supposed to be prepared by the responsible authorities before the official adoption of this type of vehicle, and in some cases this is not available as required.

In contrast, hydrogen cars rely on a built-in tank of hydrogen that chemically reacts with oxygen in the air to generate the electricity needed to power the car’s engine.

energy crisis
Amr Mostafa, the former vice president of the Petroleum Authority, blames the trend towards producing clean cars with the energy crisis that struck global markets during the past years, whether related to the unavailability of fuel at times, or its high prices at other times.

He says that the global market has suffered from successive fuel crises, with countries incurring huge losses in terms of the cost of importing fuel needed for consumption. Either in cars or otherwise. This prompted some countries to think of alternatives that allow reducing the size of the losses incurred by government budgets.

The volume of fuel consumption inside Egypt has increased from 5 to 7 percent annually in various types of fuel, including all kinds of gasoline. Therefore, the government has tended for some time to rely on gas as a temporary alternative. And the matter remained like this until it became necessary to search for an alternative to this alternative.

High percentage of clean cars
The former vice president of the Petroleum Authority points out that what Europe suffered from at the energy level during the two crises of Corona and the Russian-Ukrainian war prompted the European Union to expand directly in clean-energy cars. Similarly, in the Middle East and Egypt, agreements have emerged between the countries of the region and the major manufacturers of clean cars to promote that industry locally and expand the existing infrastructure.

According to estimates by the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers, which is concerned with registrations of vehicles powered by alternative energy, electric cars in the European Union grew by 11.1% to reach 233.4 thousand cars during the second quarter of 2022. While plug-in hybrid electric vehicles increased their market share during the second quarter. Also from the year, to 8.7% of market registrations, up from 8.4% in the second quarter of 2021.

The market share of electric car models in the European Union increased to 9.9% of the total registrations of private cars during the second quarter of this year. This is at the expense of conventional fuel vehicles (diesel and petrol), whose market share fell from total registrations to 55.8%, compared to 62% during the corresponding period of last year.

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