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The End of Diesel: Europe’s Buses Are Going Fully Electric — Fast (cleantechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The Netherlands, which had once allocated 20% of its new city bus purchases to hydrogen in 2021, has now completely phased it out.

The earlier we accept that hydrogen is a dead end for most road-related use cases, the better. Good that new city buses now run mostly electric.

[–] Noedel 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A while ago I was talking to someone form Toyota's sustainability team and they were FROTHING over hydrogen. I don't know much about it, but that surprised me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Because Japan needs to import most of its energy, it makes more sense to burn the energy at the wheels then behind the wires

[–] Diplomjodler3 1 points 1 hour ago

And how is turning fossil fuels into hydrogen in a wildly inefficient process going to help with that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Japan needs to import most of its energy

Does Japan not get sunlight or wind, or are there other factors at play?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

Offshore wind isn't really a starter for them. They're on the edge of the Pacific shelf and the waters get deep quick. That makes platforms very hard. I also don't think they get much in terms of prevailing winds unlike northern Europe with the Atlantic Jetstreams.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Well, real estate is at a premium in an earthquake prone, typhoon ravaged set of islands. They even have geothermal potential, but don't want to industrialise something with deep cultural value.