Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen portable

Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ... by xeromal on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:11AM (#31595848)

You need to think of batteries/the electric network like an interface. We can eventually replace the electric backend with better and better sources over time without needing to change the cars, but gas will always be stuck being as polluting as it always has been. Retrofits for gas / diesel cars/trucks are few and far between.

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Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ... by gmm1990 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:21AM (#31595980)

Why can't this argument be made for hydrogen

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Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ... by xeromal on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:24AM (#31596025)

I think there's definitely room for hydrogen, but the interface analogy falls flat for hydrogen. It's not like you can just drop in another fuel type into a hydrogen car after it's produced? The strength of electricity is that the backend is agnostic. It can be hydro, nuclear, sun, or some other future fuel. Hell, you can could run electricity using hydrogen if you wanted.

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Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ... by gmm1990 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:30AM (#31596097)

oh yeah, I meant the hydrogen production source could be changed from not green to green. Exactly if you have extra green energy you can just produce hydrogen with it.

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Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ... by xeromal on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:32AM (#31596122)

Yeah, that's totally reasonable. I have a friend that has a Mirai and it's really really cool. We just need to build out more infrastructure.

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