• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Why are you upset about fcevs? If hydrogen works out, great, it’s a sustainable vehicle with tremendous potential.

    If not and Toyota switches to a larger BEV catalogue, great, they’re sustainable vehicles with tremendous potential.

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      10 months ago

      The numbers do not work for FCEVs unless fossil fuels are used which is what 100% of the hydrogen in the current supply line depends on. I know people like to think that we can just use the excess energy from wind farms or solar but that is nowhere near a viable solution.

      Research into hydrogen vehicles is fine but it is a vast waste of resources for consumer vehicles. They have promise in other types of vehicles but it is silly to slow down investment in consumer BEVs to push for consumer FCEVs.

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        10 months ago

        It was silly to slow down investment in EVs a hundred fifty years ago when they were developed, I’m perfectly willing to support people trying different potentially sustainable experimentats now that EVs have been established as the future

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      10 months ago

      Let’s turn clean water — something already getting difficult to come by — into fuel! What could go wrong?