Agreed, batteries are not biodegradable, have you seen how lithium is mined? Lithium is in shorter supply than fossil fuels, we would run out of lithium before fossil fuels. Follow the money!!!Several trains of thought, batteries will be the Achilles heel for the electric cars, Toyota just last year started down the plug in road after years of hybrid production.
Not sure they really believe in the all electric route, citing all the real world stuff we know to be true.
Lack of charging stations. Apartment dwellers. Not enough grid (California already has rolling brownouts all summer long). Where do old batteries go? Charging times. Cost of replacement batteries.... On and on and on...
Three Differently Fueled Vehicles to Enter the ENEOS Super Taikyu Series 2022 Powered by Hankook | Corporate | Global Newsroom | Toyota Motor Corporation Official Global Website
Today the Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced its team setup, as well as efforts in producing, transporting and using hydrogen and carbon-neutral fuel, for the ENEOS Super Taikyu Series 2022 Powered by Hankook Round 1 Suzuka 5-Hour Endurance Race (Suzuka 5-Hour Race), which takes place...global.toyota
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Hydrogen IS the fuel of the future. Car companies are going after it like no tomorrow. They all see batteries as a stop-gap appeasement option to get there.
Maybe they are forcing electricity so hard so we will greet hydrogen with open arms. I’d rather go in a hydrogen cell boom than in a bath of battery acid.
ALL energy sources have volatility in certain situation. Lithium ion batteries are especially volatile, but folks are buying them up. If an American auto company would make a fuel cell car and the infrastructure is there, I’d buy it. In my mind, the real answer are multi-fuel engines like the new Cummins engine. It’s fuel agnostic and can run on gas, diesel, propane, and hydrogen! Problem solved! I esp like propane fuel, it stores forever, is stable, and clean - imagine filling up at Home Depot and Ace Hardware....
A few years ago there were several car manufacturers and up fitters offering Compressed Natural Gas options. Home fueling stations were offered as well. I remember one of the sale guys showing a Mustang with a CNG tank in the trunk. CNG is common in many buss and commercial fleets.
With that offer of free fuel, I'm thinking you might be able to fill up at any Toyota dealership.
LOL, well history does have a way of repeating itself......
Hydrogen May Not Have Caused Hindenburg's Fiery End (Published 1997)
Addison Bain and Richard G Van Treuren conclude that primary accelerant of the Hindenberg's fiery end in 1937 was not the hydrogen gas that provided the airship's lift, but rather its outer fabric cover, especially the lacquer dope used to smooth and waterproof it; Bain surmises that zeppelin's...
