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Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai (techcrunch.com)
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Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai::Toyota is offering some amazing deals for its hydrogen fuel cell-powered Mirai. That is, if customers can find the hydrogen to power it.

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[–] desconectado@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There's no need for a "winner", why are people so fixated that it has to be one or the other?

All the technologies we have are not exclusive, having more options is always better when it comes to energy.

This "winning" debate has to stop. There's no gas vs diesel vs natural gas winner... There is no hydro, wind, PV winner.... They all can coexist just fine.

There is a place for hydrogen fuel, and there's a place for battery vehicles.

Stop debating this like they are football teams.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Firstly: winner, as in the more appropriate and mature technology

Secondly: while it may appear the technologies are not mutually exclusive, they each depend on a lot of infrastructure. It doesn’t make sense to build put multiple sets of infrastructure for multiple technology vehicles. The reason it may make sense for heavy equipment is you typically have a central hub everything comes back to, so the infrastructure can be much simpler