Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hey now, the US has multiple hydrogen stations, assuming you live in a certain area of California.

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• tekato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  www.toyota.com/mirai/

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  • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Toyota obviously hasn’t heard about this little thing called a Prius

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, they can ditch the Hydrogen part, that technology is done

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not a car guy so I don’t understand why your view seems to be so popular on the Internet (at least in the Anglosphere).

    Is Toyota doing the Sony thing where they double down on a certain format in hopes that it will make them money if/when it gets adopted as an industry standard?

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s the nature of hydrogen as a fuel. It’s a gas, and has a very low power density. You can either compress it, but that requires the car carry a robust (and heavy) pressure vessel around. Plus, all the delivery infrastructure has to handle hydrogen at those crazy pressures, or you need to carry the compressor in the vehicle, which again is heavy, and slow. The other possiblity is to condense the hydrogen by cooling it. But now you need bulky insulation for the tank, plus, it will either need active cooling from the car, or your have to accept that the hydrogen will eventually get too warm and blow the tank, and then you have to vent it.

      Hydrogen doesn’t make sense at car scale.

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      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Its not that I don’t agree with you but I figure there has to be a business case for it if Toyota is willing to keep investing in it for 25 years. Surely, at this point, they would have thrown in the towel but they keep at it. And to make maters more interesting, they don’t seem to give a shit about full electric either. It feels like they know something we don’t.

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      • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thank you kindly! It just seems so weird that Toyota and even Japan seems so gung-ho about it. I guess it’s a case of sunk cost fallacy?

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