last
month, the chief of Japan’s Toyota Motors,
Akio Toyoda, attended a race that demonstrated an experimental hydrogen vehicle, photograph REUTERS/Bobby
Yip, a Mirai fuel cell vehicle by Toyota is displayed at China's International
Automobile Exhibition in Guangzhou, China, this new vehicle is powered by hydrogen, bur here is the twist, the
vehicle contained a traditional gasoline-powered engine that had been converted to
run on hydrogen. "The enemy is carbon, not internal combustion engines,”
Toyoda said. “We shouldn't just focus on one technology but make use
of the technologies we already possess." Toyota
recently launched the second-generation model of its Mirai hydrogen vehicle and
has plans to offer several more models in the coming years, in Germany,
BMW and Volkswagen Group are both developing hydrogen-powered passenger
vehicles along with a series of new EVs. in more news about all battery cars the expense of them is set to rise,
photograph by Brendon
Thorne/Getty Images, prices for battery grade lithium carbonate have gone up 300 per cent in the last year,
reaching $28,765, while prices for nickel and cobalt have registered a 62.4 per
cent growth year-on-year. Lithium supply shortages are also to blame for the
price surge, as experts believe they will continue in the next few years. “Battery
makers appear set to pass on lithium price increases to the automotive
manufacturers and other downstream customers, which could have a major impact
on electric vehicles coming to market between 2022 and 2024,” the agency told
the outlet, go green, go clean, go hydrogen!
2 comments:
Stan-only way they can sell electric vehicles is by using huge (30-35%)government subsidies to entice buyers. It is all politically motivated as ev does not make sense from a cost or upstream pollution standpoint. Agee200% on your support of hydrogen fueled vehicles. It will take time but at some point industry will move that direction
Regards
John and Alley
Dear John and Alley, the phrase in in the post "The enemy is carbon, not internal combustion engines,” is oh so true, I am sure that in 20 or even 30 years time battery car drivers will be demonized as indeed diesel drivers were in the UK many years ago, after the government advised everyone to change to diesel! best regards, Stan and Diana.
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