https://www.foxnews.com/auto/toyota-diesel-semis-hydrogen-powered-big-rigs
Wow. It's amazing what you can do with a diesel. Toyota is much further along than I thought.
I don't think the EV battle is settled yet in favor of lithium chemistry.
Musk definitely had the right idea - at the time he was building Tesla, it was (and still is) the best choice. But Toyota and a few others seem to be forging on with hydrogen.
Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel engine in 1858.
Nicolas Otto invented the internal combustion gas engine in 1861.
Henry Ford started mass-producing internal combustion gas cars in 1913.
I hope we move faster than that this time around, and we should given that there are fewer pieces of the puzzle to invent from whole cloth. I'm just saying it took quite a while for a winner to emerge in their respective domains (i.e. gas for light vehicles, diesel for heavy).
I had no idea how big the gap was between inventing the diesel engine to mass-producing cars. If asked ahead of time, I would have guest the engines were created in the 1880s.
>I don't think the EV battle is settled yet in favor of lithium chemistry.
Same.
New Toyota CEO Still Wants To Prioritize Hydrogen Over BEVs
https://insideevs.com/news/657990/toyota-ceo-hydrogen-over-bevs/
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Hydrogen tanker catches fire
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/136wbk5/hydrogen_tanker_catches_fire/