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Re:'A complete failure' Japan's 'fantasy' hydrogen strategy ... by danaris on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:33PM (#34485165)
It's less that they're committed to keeping the ICE, and more that they've seen that the market has passed them by with the push toward full-electric (I suspect they thought we'd be doing hybrid ICE-electric for much longer, which they're very good at). Hydrogen is their bet on being in on the ground floor of the Next Big Thing.
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Re:'A complete failure' Japan's 'fantasy' hydrogen strategy ... by thworp on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:57AM (#34486511)
> the market has passed them by

Sorry? Pure EVs are still below 15% of new sales in almost all major markets. Sure it's growing quickly but it's far from certain it won't peak at around 25%.

A lot of people will probably re-evaluate their options in the next few years, where it looks like prices for charging stations will go up (no more credit-financed hypergrowth) and in some markets home electricity prices will stay high.

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