Re:Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future
by new_realist on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:46PM
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Germany, Korea, Australia and China are also all over hydrogen.
Re:Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future
by _ph_ on Sunday December 15, 2019 @08:13AM
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I don't see much of hydrogen here in Germany. Volkswagen, the biggest car manufacturer has clearly set the bets on battery electric. Mercedes has a hydrogen car, but only leases it out, doesn't sell it. Of course, everyone who missed the battery electric car market so far is still talking about hydrogen as "the future".
Re:Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future
by woodandsteel on Sunday December 15, 2019 @07:59PM
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How many hydrogen charging stations are there in Japan and all those countries combined, as compared with how many electric charging stations?
Li-ion ev's outsell hydrogen ones about a hundred to one, and the numbers are going to greatly increase in the coming years. Hydrogen for cars has never gone anywhere and it never will.
That's it exactly. At the time li-ion batteries were pretty poor, so fuel cells seemed like a good bet. Since then batteries have progressed much faster than fuel cells, and now are way ahead, and no doubt that will continue in the future.
Many observers have commented over the decades that Japanese corporations have great difficulty admitting they have made a mistake, and this seems to be another case of that.