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Re:The president of Toyota will be replaced to accelerate th... by theshrike79 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:49PM (#34540015)
_Static_ fuel cells are lasting tens of thousands of hours. The big ones you use at factories.

The Toyota Mirai, which is the crown jewel hydrogen vehicle at the moment, has only 5000 hour life span on its fuel cell. You'd think they'd install one of those tens of thousands of hours one in it if they could?

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Re:The president of Toyota will be replaced to accelerate th... by _hypx on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:56PM (#34540067)
5000 hours * 50 mph is 250,000 miles. That's plenty.
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Re:The president of Toyota will be replaced to accelerate th... by theshrike79 on Friday January 27, 2023 @02:20AM (#34543515)
The hours start running from the second you start the car. You're not gunning it at 50mph for the full 5000 hours.
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Re:The president of Toyota will be replaced to accelerate th... by _hypx on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:05AM (#34543768)
That's utter nonsense. These things are rated at a specific power output. People have actually driven them to very high mileage and not seen such dramatic declines. Not to mention that these things degrade similar to batteries, with a slow reduction in power rather than sudden death.
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