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Toyota is offering some amazing deals for its hydrogen fuel cell-powered Mirai. That is, if customers can find the hydrogen to power it.

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.

  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    Yes but the overhead we have is nothing compared to the energy needed to make everything hydrogen powered. we would need an absolute absurd amount of overhead to generate all the hydrogen from overhead alone.

    It’s kind of dumb to intentionally waste 75-80% of the total electric energy initially generated to power hydrogen vehicles.

    Using hydrogen to store the occasional grid overhead to be used for the grid later is a great idea, it should absolutely be done ASAP…but it’s not a solution to hydrogen powered vehicles.

    • baru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Using hydrogen to store the occasional grid overhead to be used for the grid later is a great idea

      A factory which only runs some of the time will be really expensive. From what I’ve seen it’s way more cost effective to rely on batteries for surplus electricity.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        So far grid scale battery storage only scales to stabilizing the grid. It’s better than anything else at that, but it’s not cost effective to for example power a town overnight until solar is back