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Re:Toyota announces sustainable vehicle ecosystem [video] by maccard on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:03AM (#20123341)
> It only makes sense if you have nearly free energy that you can dump into the process and don't care about loses.

That's kind of the case in a few different places though - e.g. Solar is "free" and the losses don't really matter in many places.

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Re:Toyota announces sustainable vehicle ecosystem [video] by taneq on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:12AM (#20124149)
Sure, but for a given amount of "free" solar you can drive a pure BEV 2-4 times as far as you can drive a fuel cell car, and the BEV will also be a better car. If you have infinite free electricity then hydrogen is potentially viable but since we discovered LiIon it's always inferior to batteries.
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