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I think they see the writing on the wall for their services business with solid state tech and wanting to fight the trend. Or, building engines are just such a
by ianai 7y ago
I think they see the writing on the wall for their services business with solid state tech and wanting to fight the trend. Or, building engines are just such a core part of their company that they’re essentially petrol heads looking for a replacement as near as possible. But I’m low information on that and just speculating.
Fuel cells are neat tech though. I also understand the argument they made with respect to using nickel hydride batteries over lithium. See their CFOs recent remarks.
- Aloha 7y agoHydrogen Fuel Cells are electric.
- ianai 7y agoYes, and they wear out and must be replaced. The drive train is powering an electric motor. Toyota might be expecting to get more service work out of fuel cells than batteries. Just throwing things at the wall for their motives though.
- darksaints 7y ago> Yes, and they wear out and must be replaced. Doesn't everything? Some production fuel cells have a service life of >50000 hrs. That's way more than you can expect out of batteries.