Ping!....................
Toyota gets it - a Need For Speed is a human universal + fully electric will never be the total solution that some think it is.
They are only doing this because of twisted marxist central planning from governments.
The national highway traffic safety administration needs to be eliminated
“However, he admitted that a major hurdle stands in the way of the technology: infrastructure.”
I think something akin to bottle exchanges would be the path of least resistance.
The British Top Gear guys said hydrogen was the way forward many years ago.
https://youtu.be/0fBqkWkEeqU?si=DnB7m1VzR1txnxcc
Where are you going to get the hydrogen?
And no, you can't "make" hydrogen at home. You can crack it out of water or hydrocarbons ... which requires energy. Where's that going to come from? Wind? Solar? Don't make me laugh! On second thought, do ...
"Green" energy is a lie.
The Greens hate nuclear, coal, oil, and methane. They hate hydro, which is funny: hydro power is really just solar by another name. They feed us BS about solar and wind ... and either they don't know what they're talking about, or they're lying.
Hydrogen alone makes no sense. Now, if you just add some carbon to that hydrogen and make a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, you’d really have something.
Get the carbon from biomass and you’d be “carbon neutral,” too. No releasing that evil carbon stored in coal.
Where will you get the hydrogen ? Well where will all the electricity for EVs come from ? LOL
I read somewhere that Ford has research into developing ‘water run’ engines that converts it into hydrogen. China can’t control the world’s water sources vs the mining necessary for battery components in EV’s.
As the owner of excavation and utility construction company, no one can tell me how it will be possible to charge a fleet EV heavy equipment in an efficient and fast manner. It’s not like I can afford to double the size of my fleet of loaders, excavators, and dump trucks so one set is charging while the other is in operation.
If they do away with diesel fuel, the only real alternative will be hydrogen.
The major hurdle is embrittlement…
Good for them. Batteries are bad tech.
As to hydrogen, make it on site from water and leccy. No distribution system needed. It is basically a very inefficient EV approach.
More madness is this. To make hydrogen from water via electrolysis is about 75% efficient. The electricity comes from petroleum or coal powered plants mostly. You can make it from coal or natural gas via a high temperature process that is not energy efficient in the least. Hydrogen is a bitch to work with. It leaks, it causes hydrogen embrittlement and if one of those tanks ruptures in a multistory garage you will have a hell of an explosion that will probably bring the garage down.
In effect you have already lost 25% of your energy before it is used in your car and perhaps blown up a garage, your house, etc.