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>Someone high up at Toyota bet on fuel cells 20 years ago and can't back down now without losing too much face That's it exactly. At the time li-ion batteries
by woodandsteel 7y ago
>Someone high up at Toyota bet on fuel cells 20 years ago and can't back down now without losing too much face
That's it exactly. At the time li-ion batteries were pretty poor, so fuel cells seemed like a good bet. Since then batteries have progressed much faster than fuel cells, and now are way ahead, and no doubt that will continue in the future.
Many observers have commented over the decades that Japanese corporations have great difficulty admitting they have made a mistake, and this seems to be another case of that.
- new_realist 7y agoGermany, Korea, Australia and China are also all over hydrogen.
- sumedh 7y agoDoes Australia even have a car industry?
- tomwilson 7y agoIt did. It died.
- _ph_ 7y agoI don't see much of hydrogen here in Germany. Volkswagen, the biggest car manufacturer has clearly set the bets on battery electric. Mercedes has a hydrogen car, but only leases it out, doesn't sell it. Of course, everyone who missed the battery electric car market so far is still talking about hydrogen as "the future".
- woodandsteel 7y agoHow many hydrogen charging stations are there in Japan and all those countries combined, as compared with how many electric charging stations? Li-ion ev's outsell hydrogen ones about a hundred to one, and the numbers are going to greatly increase in the coming years. Hydrogen for cars has never gone anywhere and it never will.