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Japan has invested billions in hydrogen technology and nationwide hydrogen fuel infrastructure. They are fully vested and on the cutting edge of hydrogen energy “sustainability”. Their vision, investments and hard work is highly commendable and should finally prove whether hydrogen energy is a viable and smart investment for others. Certainly hope this works out well for them (and everyone else).
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Toyota are doing the smart thing by pursuing all avenues of energy usage. Some countries are better at using battery cars, some are better at using hydrogen and hybrid is useful in many places as well. Here in Australia we have large distances so anyone that lives in the country areas would be crazy to choose a battery powered car, a hybrid is a much smarter choice. I personally wouldn't consider a battery powered car until they can do at least 1000km (620 miles) and take no more than 20 minutes to charge, I have a boat and towing with a battery car drops range a lot. Toyota is considering the entire world including Africa as there is no way to use a battery car in most of the the countries there, no fast charging system. Providing poorer countries with modern efficient transport options is far better for the planet than ignoring them because they don't fit with your expensive battery cars that need a lot of new infrastructure to implement. Good job Toyota.
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They're taking a massive gamble. Currently creating energy from Hydrogen takes more energy than you have to put in. This has always been the problem that no one has properly cracked yet. In theory it sounds good, Hydrogen burns cleanly in the car, but the vast amounts of energy required to create the liquid hydrogen in the first place is the hurdle.
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This would be awesome! I'm more curious to know more about roadside accidents though, what happens when your car is hit from another driver or driver error? How easily repairable is the car? with current combustible engine cars; parts and panels can usually be replaced or beaten out. Will there be highly flammable leaks if there are car accidents? even it is a minor accident?
When I think about the amount of car accidents and collisions on the roads these days, I think safety is definitely the no.1 concern when dealing hydrogen 😅
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Even if this works exactly how Toyota is claiming, EVs are still the better technology. By the time you build this hydrogen generating station, you could have just used the renewable energy to build a DC fast charger. This system sounds just as complex as an ICE so you don't save on maintenance, and you lose the ability to wake up to a charged car every day.
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The issue with hydrogen is that it doesn't exist in it's free state on earth. You have to "make" it by stripping it away from water molecules (not a great idea in drought prone California) or stripping it away from hydrocarbons (that's oil). Either way that takes energy which you have to create from other sources. So all hydrogen winds up being is a transmission method for energy produced elsewhere. Like copper wire conveying electricity.
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That '90 second' refuelling time is going to be the killer punch for EVs - add the fact that it being relatively straightforward to incorporate such refuelling systems into conventional petrol / diesel filling stations, and you've got a win / win situation.
Another point re. EVs made by Toyota's boss is this; although the price of EV batteries has been falling, thanks to the costs savings from increased production numbers, the price of the required raw materials - like lithium - is rising relentlessly. If increasing numbers of EVs are built, then the cost of lithium will continue to rise, with inevitable impact on the price of batteries for new build and 'end of service life replacements' - and, unlike hydrogen, which can be produced anywhere, lithiulm deposits are where they are. If the producing countries decide to jack the price by 5, 10 or 20%, battery makers will have no option but to pay up, and raise the selling price of their batteries accordingly.
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Here in Longview, TX, a company called Capacity is building "Yard" or "Spotter" trucks that are used at docks and big logistics trucking facilities, that run entirely on hydrogen. They are hoping to see them used at the big shipping facility in Long Beach, CA and elsewhere. They sound odd when starting up but when running, they seem no different than an semi truck.
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Students in Switzerland have recently built an EV that reaches 100 KPH in just under a second. That’s more or less instantaneous. And in Holland, students have built an EV off-roader that has covered nearly 1000 K s across North African deserts, powered only by sunlight. The end of EV’s ?.......I don’t think so somehow
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@jonjonsson2369
11 months ago
Really hope this works. ! As a teenager I heard that HYDROGEN was going to power our future, with no problems - it was just 10 years away. I am now close to 70 years old and have heard every decade of my life that HYDROGEN is coming to our help. It might be just 10 years away.
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