Man, Toyota is totally pulling a Sears here. They’ve been the leader in hybrids for decades and it wouldn’t have taken much to gradually parlay that into EV’s.
Instead they keep doing this bizarre hydrogen fixation.
Instead they keep doing this bizarre hydrogen fixation.
Just the physics of "green" hydrogen seems so miserable. Take electricity? Use it to convert water at great cost to hydrogen. Then use more energy to compress it? Then lots of cost in shipping and handling (hydrogen is hard to handle). Then turn it back into electricity, then use that to run an electric motor.
It brings certain advantages in terms of charging speed and energy density scaling that can be problematic for batteries (and while there's considerable flexibility depending on users to just accept longer charging, that blocks you away from certain use cases beyond light car market)