Tuesday 1 February 2022

It Looks Like My Dream Of A Hydrogen Car Bubble,

has nearly burst,


photograph Autocar of a hydrogen Toyota Mirai, after decades of research into hydrogen fuel cells, many car makers are now backing away from the technology, Honda last year announced it was ending its Clarity fuel cell programme, citing low demand, in 2020, Mercedes-Benz stopped its long-running F-Cell programme, due to high costs and an inability to lower them, and naturally the UK government is partly to blame for focusing too much on BEVs, argues Celia Greaves, CEO of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. She said: “There are orders of magnitudes in the difference between levels of support we’re seeing of hydrogen fuelling infrastructure versus chargers.” on the good news front Toyota is working on fuelling existing internal combustion engines with hydrogen, but Harrison said this research is so far aimed at motorsport. “Whether that makes it beyond motorsport experimentation into any sort of engine application, we’re some way off making a judgment on that,” he said, for the full article have a look here, such a shame that a golden opportunity to go green, go clean, go hydrogen for cars appears to be lost.


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