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I think Toyota is working on a hydrogen combustion engine. Maybe this plus that could be interesting
by themitigating 4y ago
I think Toyota is working on a hydrogen combustion engine. Maybe this plus that could be interesting
- amalcon 4y agoThere's potentially some merit there, since the expense of the catalyst (and its decontamination process) is a significant barrier to the use of hydrogen fuel cells. That said, I'd expect it to be dramatically less efficient than a fuel cell system.
- ummonk 4y agoOne of the things I've seen Tata Motors talking about re: Hydrogen ICE as an intermediate technology is that the fuel purity requirements are much lower for an ICE than for a fuel cell.
- King-Aaron 4y agoI have my doubts that hydrogen combustion will ever be viable for consumer vehicles. The energy output is far too low, and storage is vastly too problematic.
- RockyMcNuts 4y agoThey have a fuel cell vehicle - https://www.toyota.com/mirai/ https://www.toyota.com/mirai/
- freetime2 4y agoToyota (in collaboration with Yamaha) is developing a V8 hydrogen combustion engine [1]. BMW also developed a V12 hydrogen combustion engine back in 2005 [2]. "Engineering Explained" has put out videos on both, and neither of them sound very appealing to me. [3][4] [1] https://www.topgear.com/car-news/future-tech/toyota-and-yamaha-are-developing-hydrogen-fuelled-v8 https://www.topgear.com/car-news/future-tech/toyota-and-yama... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjKwSF9gT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjKwSF9gT8 [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouW9_jyZck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouW9_jyZck