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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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[–] partizan@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From really long term hydrogen makes a lots of sense, much more than Li-* batteries. There is no need for digging up rare earth metals, H2 is a byproduct of creating graphene and various processes can create it. Also filling up liquid hydrogen takes still less, than any charging available. And IMO it can be much cleaner than any other technology on horizon currently. Only more effective but not necessarily cleaner are the plans for small nuclear power plants.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Hydrogen makes loads of sense at the point we have huge amounts of excess electrical energy. Until that point it's just too inefficient compared to alternatives.