Amidst California’s ongoing efforts to promote environmentally friendly transportation and the changing landscape of hydrogen fuel infrastructure, Toyota has announced a dramatic rebate of up to $40,000 off MSRP for the 2023 Toyota Mirai.
Amidst California’s ongoing efforts to promote environmentally friendly transportation and the changing landscape of hydrogen fuel infrastructure, Toyota has announced a dramatic rebate of up to $40,000 off MSRP for the 2023 Toyota Mirai.
How? Why? Care to elaborate?
Hydrogen, even if you make it 100% via electrolysis with solar power, is extremely inefficient. In the order of regular ICE cars inefficient. You piss 2/3 of the energy away while having the complexity of a BEV plus additional hydrogen on top. It is worse in every way except range. Unlike batteries, filling up H2 at the fuel station is not getting faster with every generation. Unlike batteries, the range does not increase with every generation. Unlike batteries, the price does not go down sharply. Unlike batteries, the longevity of the fuelcell is shit.
Fuel cells are far more efficient than ICEs. Refueling times are already comparable to that of an ICE car. Fuel cells can easily last the lifetime of the car. Range increases with every model. This is anti-progress and anti-green nonsense. You’re pretty regurgitating corporate propaganda, either from the oil industry or from battery companies.
Hahaha, more efficient that ICE? 70 % hydrogen production 70 % storage 70 % fuel cell Leaving out everything else, where does that get us?
Fuel cells last 100’000 miles. Simply calling that “like if the vehicle” is absurd.
Anti Green is pissing away 3x as much energy to make sure stuff stays the same.
All steps can approach 100% efficiency. It is not much different than how a battery car works.
Fuel cells have already been test to 30,000 hours in real world settings. We’re easily looking at million+ miles in certain circumstances. This is plain Ludditism to think that reliability can’t be achieved.
Interesting. From what I’ve seen most of the tech that is used or being researched to produce hydrogen using electrolysis ranges from LTE (low temp) the least efficient at 70-80% to HTE (high temp), PEM (proton exchange membrane) and others using chemicals range ,from 70-90% efficient. You are correct in saying that the current cost constraints is the cost of the electricity being used. However with the amount of energy and the effects of strip mining processing and environmental effects. Hydrogen has just as much potential if not more as a future alternative to ICE.
Oh and according to Toyota on their Miria hydrogen vehicle it only takes ~5 mins to refuel.
Thanks for elaborating. It opens the discussion and understanding of potential mindset against this tech.