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The current Toyota car being sold can go 312 miles per 'tank', and takes 5 minutes to refuel. Which is better than Tesla EV cars. It's much easier for trains,
by renesd 10y ago
The current Toyota car being sold can go 312 miles per 'tank', and takes 5 minutes to refuel. Which is better than Tesla EV cars.
It's much easier for trains, and larger vehicles to bring the infrastructure online. Existing natural gas pipeline and storage infrastructure can be used. Probably only a big company like Toyota could pull off getting the infrastructure in place for car sized vehicles. So far they have only done Japan, and parts of California.
I've seen TWh storage being quoted. Which is quite a lot higher than battery systems. Sure, if you can use the electricity directly, there is no need for storage. However, if you need to store a lot of energy, and you need the ability to send it around then gas isn't so bad.
Time will tell if it all works out I guess. But from the systems selling now, it seems like it's now viable.