Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai::Toyota is offering some amazing deals for its hydrogen fuel cell-powered Mirai. That is, if customers can find the hydrogen to power it.

  • QuandaleDingle
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    2 years ago

    I don’t have a single hydrogen station here in Michigan. (There might be one in Detroit.) Meanwhile, I can plug in my electric car at home, or go to a public charger 10 miles away. Hydrogen’s good as dead. At least to me, anyway.

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      2 years ago

      Hydrogen was as good as dead for years because compressing it is so wasteful

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      2 years ago

      We had one in my town until it closed down 3 years ago. Now the nearest one to me is a 90 mile round trip away.

      Hydrogen definitely feels like a fad which has had its moment.