• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because Toyota invested a lot into hydrogen instead of EV, and they need to recuperate at least some of it.

    • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Honestly I’m glad that somebody is exploring other environmentally friendly alternatives too, nothing wrong with having options.

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        Kind of? Hydrogen can be environmentally friendly, but EVs have big advantages:

        • Creating and burning hydrogen is way less efficient than EVs (almost an order of magnitude)
        • Hydrogen is much cheaper to create in environmentally unfriendly ways (using natural gas etc.)
        • Unless we have massive overproduction of power, the additional energy can be better used to de-carbonify other processes with larger impact
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          That’s why generating hydrogen during off-peak hours from a nuclear power plant will be very beneficial. It may be less efficient but way better for the environment then lithium

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            1 year ago

            You still have all the transport and storage costs associated with hydrogen. I’d need to see a study that actually determines the environmental impact of lithium to believe you.

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      They’ve invested heavily into a partnership with Panasonic to build solid state batteries too . They hand just spread their risk