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Joe Bamford

Joe Bamford

British clean-energy entrepreneur and hydrogen advocate; founder and Executive Chairman of Ryze, Chairman of HydraB, and owner of the electric bus manufacturer Wrightbus.

Aug 25, 2026

8:30
Right.
8:31
So really what you're talking about is this, that neither one of them yet are at a point where we can get it to cost the same and operate the same.
8:41
When you think about a diesel combustion engine, well, that's had 100 years of R&D, okay? What that means is every year it gets 2% better.
8:51
And what you're now trying to find is a, an engine, if you want, whether it's a fuel cell or a combustion engine, that operates like a diesel engine.
8:59
So let me give you the engineering spike point, okay? The, the distance, the, the near future, and it is this: a hydrogen combustion engine is 30% efficient, uh, but it's $100 a kilowatt to buy it.
9:17
Whereas a fuel cell is, say, $700 a, a kilowatt to buy, but it's 55% efficient.
9:24
Okay, let me put that in simple, um, words.
12:21
Yeah.

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