The Netherlands, which had once allocated 20% of its new city bus purchases to hydrogen in 2021, has now completely phased it out.
The earlier we accept that hydrogen is a dead end for most road-related use cases, the better. Good that new city buses now run mostly electric.
A while ago I was talking to someone form Toyota’s sustainability team and they were FROTHING over hydrogen. I don’t know much about it, but that surprised me.
Because Japan needs to import most of its energy, it makes more sense to burn the energy at the wheels then behind the wires
And how is turning fossil fuels into hydrogen in a wildly inefficient process going to help with that?
Japan needs to import most of its energy
Does Japan not get sunlight or wind, or are there other factors at play?
Well, real estate is at a premium in an earthquake prone, typhoon ravaged set of islands. They even have geothermal potential, but don’t want to industrialise something with deep cultural value.
I haven’t seen a single electric bus in czechia
we do use a lot of trams and trolleybuses, but still quite a lot of loud busses
Czechia is slower to migrate to electric buses than most EU countries.
Great chart! Who are “EU27”? Total average?
Yes, the 27 EU contries (since brexit)
