Tesla has always been outspoken about its disregard for hydrogen-fuelled vehicles, with CEO Elon Musk once famously referring to fuel cells as “fool cells.” However, now one of the former co-founders of Tesla, TarpenningMarc Tarpenning, who left the firm back in 2008, has gone a step further, referring to fuel cells as a “scam.” "Hydrogen is uniquely bad," Marc Tarpenning said. "There's a saying in the auto industry: Hydrogen is the future of transportation and always will be. And it's a scam as far as I can tell, because the energy equation is terrible," he said. The main issue Marc Tarpenning has with making hydrogen an electricity generator is that it simply takes too much energy to ever make it a viable fuel source.
Tesla has always been outspoken about its disregard for hydrogen-fuelled vehicles, with CEO Elon Musk once famously referring to fuel cells as “fool cells.” However, now one of the former co-founders of Tesla, Marc Tarpenning, who left the firm back in 2008, has gone a step further, referring to fuel cells as a “scam.” "Hydrogen is uniquely bad," Tarpenning said. "There's a saying in the auto industry: Hydrogen is the future of transportation and always will be. And it's a scam as far as I can tell, because the energy equation is terrible," he said. The main issue Tarpenning has with making hydrogen an electricity generator is that it simply takes too much energy to ever make it a viable fuel source.