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Toyota trials hydrogen-powered vehicle on public roads in Australia (japantoday.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] FooBarrington 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because Toyota invested a lot into hydrogen instead of EV, and they need to recuperate at least some of it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm glad that somebody is exploring other environmentally friendly alternatives too, nothing wrong with having options.

[–] FooBarrington 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kind of? Hydrogen can be environmentally friendly, but EVs have big advantages:

  • Creating and burning hydrogen is way less efficient than EVs (almost an order of magnitude)
  • Hydrogen is much cheaper to create in environmentally unfriendly ways (using natural gas etc.)
  • Unless we have massive overproduction of power, the additional energy can be better used to de-carbonify other processes with larger impact
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why generating hydrogen during off-peak hours from a nuclear power plant will be very beneficial. It may be less efficient but way better for the environment then lithium

[–] FooBarrington 0 points 1 year ago

You still have all the transport and storage costs associated with hydrogen. I'd need to see a study that actually determines the environmental impact of lithium to believe you.

[–] Geobloke 2 points 1 year ago

They've invested heavily into a partnership with Panasonic to build solid state batteries too . They hand just spread their risk