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I was going to say this - Toyota gave up on batteries after building the Prius. Their hydrogen fuel cell is clearly not the way the industry is going. So are t
by jarym 7y ago
I was going to say this - Toyota gave up on batteries after building the Prius.
Their hydrogen fuel cell is clearly not the way the industry is going. So are they going back to batteries, the tech they said would never be commercially viable?
- solarkraft 7y agoIf they don't want to die completely, they should probably build BEVs. This seems to be a sign of them slowly realising that.
- melkiaur 7y agoWait. I thought their hydrogen cars were hybrid cars, just like the prius. Why do you say they gave up on batteries ?
- glogla 7y agoKinda. H2EV don't "burn" the hydrogen, because fuel cells are much better than engines that burn stuff in cylinders. So you end up with electormotor and fuel cell. And since you can recuperate into fuel cell and fuel cells aren't very good at providing big short peaks of power, it makes sense to add a battery to smooth things out and to store energy when braking. But the battery doesn't need high-capacity, because it's just a temporary store of energy. It's a very different battery technology than what you find in a Tesla or Kia e-Niro or whatever. In the end, Toyota H2EV (Mirai) is basically 1) electromotor from Lexus hybrid 2) battery from Prius 3) Fuel cell.