Promises of something 'in 3 years' is not in any way serious while selling mediocre overpriced EV right now. This is Toyota standard stalling while hoping their beloved Hydrogen somehow happens in the mean time.
I do not get why Toyota is so wedded to hydrogen. There's no infrastructure for it. It would require a far bigger revamp than the switch to BEVs. There's no existing hydrogen source, and the stuff is tricky to transport and store.
If they had a hydrogen source for cheap, it would have been so much easier to just transform it into hydrocarbons. They're easier to store, easier to transport, and all of the existing structure is already built around it. Just keep on making the same engines you always have.
They already had a lead in battery-powered hybrids. It would have made so much more sense to lean into that, first into plugin hybrids and then plugin-only.
Hydrogen is such an obvious dead end, and everybody sees it but them -- the ones who should have been the first to figure it out. I just don't get it.
Because they are a JP company, over there they have no way of cheaply producing the electricity needed, already relying on natural gas imports, hydrogen needs only a few more steps on top of it to make.
> I do not get why Toyota is so wedded to hydrogen. There's no infrastructure for it. It would require a far bigger revamp than the switch to BEVs. There's no existing hydrogen source, and the stuff is tricky to transport and store.
I think the answer is really simple and basically the same as for where this headline comes from: FUD about EVs so people instead buy a Toyota gas car while pretending to be eco.
> They already had a lead in battery-powered hybrids. It would have made so much more sense to lean into that, first into plugin hybrids and then plugin-only.
That was twenty years ago though.
Just like twenty years ago "hydrogen cars" sounded like a possible solution.
