I meant Apex as more "best of all possible trade offs". If we go with all tech available to us, we can get better, but you lose out in other areas - at least in our current world. 20 years of development in any direction could wildly change things.
It gives us a mature power plant tech ology, coupled with a fairly safe and stable fuel, which is quickly replaced when low/out, using already in place infrastructure, that runs an EV, which has some good pluses over mechanical ICE driven systems.
A lot of energy storage options we have lack a lot of usefulness for car and transport in areas like transportability, stability, or size requirements.
I meant Apex as more "best of all possible trade offs". If we go with all tech available to us, we can get better, but you lose out in other areas - at least in our current world. 20 years of development in any direction could wildly change things.
It gives us a mature power plant tech ology, coupled with a fairly safe and stable fuel, which is quickly replaced when low/out, using already in place infrastructure, that runs an EV, which has some good pluses over mechanical ICE driven systems.
A lot of energy storage options we have lack a lot of usefulness for car and transport in areas like transportability, stability, or size requirements.