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I’d say you just aren’t paying attention to the gains being made in fuel cell technology. A lot of people on this website are really oblivious to this, so you’r
by Hypx 6y ago
I’d say you just aren’t paying attention to the gains being made in fuel cell technology. A lot of people on this website are really oblivious to this, so you’re not alone.
The 2021 Mirai using only 10 grams of platinum. Although they haven’t spoken much about pricing, it’s pretty obvious this is going to be a cost effective car to manufacture. Certainly, it’s going to be a lot cheaper to produce than a car with 600kg of batteries.
The upcoming BMW X5 Hydrogen is going to have 370 hp. I’d say that’s plenty.
- greglindahl 6y agoUh, OK. We're N years into the Hydrogen Revolution and the only problem is that people are ignorant? It was the 2017 Mirai that was supposed to be powerful and cheap. Now it's 2021. The old model had 151 hp. The new one has... ? neither a price nor a performance? The low end gas X5 has 335-456hp. So far the BEVs that have sold well have much higher performance than the minimum.
- Hypx 6y agoIt's not a function of time but rather progress. Since there has been significant progress (mostly ignored by the tech community), the commonly used arguments against hydrogen are now wrong. They haven't announced those numbers yet. We know BMW is building an X5 with 368hp using Toyota's fuel cell stack: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/bmws-hydrogen-x5-will-produce-368bhp https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/bmws-hydrogen-x5-w... So we should be reasonably sure the new Mirai is going to be much faster than the first. It's also going to have around 400 miles of range and will be much bigger and more luxurious. We haven't heard about pricing yet, but from a production standpoint Toyota has talked extensively about how much cheaper it is to make.