Toyota Motor Corp said Saturday it is conducting trials of a vehicle powered by a hydrogen engine in Australia, making it the Japanese automaker's first such test of the environmentally friendly car on public roads toward its commercial use. In the trial from late October through January, a specially modified…
  • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And don’t forget it’s way faster to refill a hydrogen tank than an battery. Also, cars are such a big industry it’s actually easier to not have a middleman (hydrogen -> electric grid -> EVs) because all the infrastructure would have to be built without any real need for it.

    • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Is faster, but with modern EVs it’s really not a problem.

      Depart home with 100%, drive for 4 hours, stop to grab an meal and use the facilities and the car is finished before you. Modern EVs take 15 minutes to go 20-80% charged.

      Hydrogen is 3x less energy efficient than a battery electric vehicle. It certainly has use cases, but it came 20 years too late for light vehicles.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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      1 year ago

      And don’t forget it’s way faster to refill a hydrogen tank than an battery.

      For now, this should change with solid state batteries