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First@programming.dev 8 months agoThey don’t? When the Toyota hydrogen cars were introduced here around 2015, one of the issues were that a full tank of gas would dilute through the tank walls within a week. From the marketing material of the latest Toyota Mirage, it seems that they still use Hydrogen stored in gas form, boasting improvements in a 3-layer tank that is tested for 235% of the pressure that the gas is stored at, compared to 150% for regular gas containers.
philpo@feddit.de 8 months ago
They don’t. They use hydrogen fuel cells to generate electric power.
First@programming.dev 8 months ago
Yeah and what does that have to do with the Hydrogen being stored in gas form? The fuel cell converts it, it isn’t a storage mechanism. Hydrogen has a boiling point of -253C, are you saying that Hydrogen powered cars are fitted with a power hungry cryo chamber to cool down the fuel to a liquid form?
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They are not storing the hydrogen at atmospheric pressure