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The us has 57 hydrogen fueling stations. By contrast, there are 59,340 public electric charging stations in the us.

If there were stations you could drive a hydrogen car. But there just aren’t. And there doesn’t seem to be anyone planning to build tens of thousands of these stations any time soon.

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lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe they won’t start with the US then. There are countries with highest population density and smaller surface closer to home for Toyota.

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- hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Do you mean countries like Indonesia?
  
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  - lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How about Japan? 😊
    
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    geomela@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I dunno, man. Indonesia is pretty close to Toyota’s HQ.
    
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KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
i heard toyota might have plans for that. at least they understand that someone needs to build them.

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- Hildegarde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If they had plans to invest in hydrogen infrastructure on the scale needed to make hydrogen cars viable, they would have made an announcement about it. There are over 100,00 gas stations in the US. To make hydrogen vehicles viable toyota would need to be investing in hydrogen infrastructure at that scale. And they would be building these stations alone. No other company is investing in hydrogen infrastructure. Shell is pulling out of the hydrogen fuel station market entirely, and even so there are only stations in two states specifically because of government incentives.
  
  Hydrogen cars are going nowhere. Toyota’s continued fluff about the Mirai is PR to distract from the fact that Toyota is doing everything they can to avoid making zero emission cars.
  
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