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BMW is working on hydrogen fuel-cell for next-gen EVs too: https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0403302EN/bmw-group-commences-in-house-product

• panick21_ 4y ago
  BMW made the disastrous internal choice to not do BEV architecture but do architectures that can support anything ICE, PHEV, BEV and hydrogen. This has backfired on them and they lost the leadership position they once had. These hydrogen cars are mostly fantasy, good for marketing and have essentially no adoption at all.
  • jjtheblunt 4y ago
    BMW i3 (late 2013-2022) and its direct successor iX are both clean sheet designed BEVs. Toyota has had a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle lease program in southern california for at least 5 years, but, to your point, adoption is constrained because hydrogen fueling infrastructure was purpose built to test the idea, and so is not at all widely available.
    • panick21_ 4y ago
      Yes, they did the i3 and some stuff and they were early in on a lot of that stuff, but then for their next major product cycle they didn't go to BEV. You can still find articles about where BMW proudly talked about their multi technology architecture and how all-electric architectures were a bad idea. This lead to a number of BMW people who worked on those electric programs to leave. > and so is not at all widely available It wont be widely available in the future because its just to expensive to build compared to charging. Tesla model would not have worked if they had to build hydrogen stations.