cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52369691
According to the complaint, Toyota and its hydrogen partner, FirstElement Fuel (True Zero), intentionally concealed evidence of:
hydrogen leaks near hot engine components, creating explosion risks
sudden power loss, acceleration, and braking failures leading to collisions and injuries
a collapsing hydrogen infrastructure, leaving drivers stranded for weeks without access to fuel
aggressive financial collection tactics by Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, targeting owners of inoperable vehicles.
It can never work, the energy needed to make it is more then energy available from the H. It’s like needing 1 barrel of oil to make 3/4 of a barrel of oil.
I’d say this is the least problematic aspect of all. If it was a viable energy storage solution, then it’d work even with higher energy input.
If that energy came from renewables then it could have some uses (wherever nothing but hydrogen will do), but yeah.
The case with transit is such that they keep trying to invent ways not to use trains, and we just have to tap our feet and wait for them to look facts in the face.
I guess you never been to the Alberta tar sands, that’s exactly what they do with gas and water to make oil.