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All of this may become irrelevant quite quickly. Electric cars only made up 2 % of total new vehicle sales last year.

Toyota, who have been relatively quiet on the electric car development front, are going down the hydrogen cell route instead and it is looking more and more achievable.

My guess is that since we do not have, most likely will continue to not have the required electrical infrastructure to run millions of all-electric cars, then hydrogen will be the future.


To quote a recent item -

"The man behind this revolution, Takeshi Uchiyamada, 73, chairman for the past seven years and the man known as the father of the Prius, said in 2014 that it had taken 15 years for it to go mainstream. His expectation, he said, was that the Mirai hydrogen car would be on a similar trajectory.

The inference was that hydrogen fuel cells would be mainstream by the late 2020s. “We are so focused on hydrogen because at its most simplistic oxygen and hydrogen makes water and power,” he said. “The fuel cell vehicle is a social and economic game changer. Gasoline has been the primary fuel of the first 100 years [of automotive history]. Hydrogen will be the primary fuel game of the next hundred years.”

For years the rest of the car industry scrambled to play zero-emission catch-up, investing billions in plug-ins to avoid CO² reduction penalties, to the point that 2020 is being called the year of the electric car. For most of that time Toyota has been silent on battery electric vehicles, leading competitors and consumers to the conclusion that it was sticking to the notion that its hybrids, with just a few miles of electric charge, would remain its “technology bridge” until lithium-ion batteries were the past and hydrogen was the dominant zero-emission technology."

All of this may become irrelevant quite quickly. Electric cars only made up 2 % of total new vehicle sales last year.

Toyota, who have been relatively quiet on the electric car development front, are going down the hydrogen cell route instead and it is looking more and more achievable.

My guess is that since we do not have, most likely will continue to not have the required electrical infrastructure to run millions of all-electric cars, then hydrogen will be the future.


To quote a recent item -

"The man behind this revolution, Takeshi Uchiyamada, 73, chairman for the past seven years and the man known as the father of the Prius, said in 2014 that it had taken 15 years for it to go mainstream. His expectation, he said, was that the Mirai hydrogen car would be on a similar trajectory.

The inference was that hydrogen fuel cells would be mainstream by the late 2020s. “We are so focused on hydrogen because at its most simplistic oxygen and hydrogen makes water and power,” he said. “The fuel cell vehicle is a social and economic game changer. Gasoline has been the primary fuel of the first 100 years [of automotive history]. Hydrogen will be the primary fuel game of the next hundred years.”

For years the rest of the car industry scrambled to play zero-emission catch-up, investing billions in plug-ins to avoid CO² reduction penalties, to the point that 2020 is being called the year of the electric car. For most of that time Toyota has been silent on battery electric vehicles, leading competitors and consumers to the conclusion that it was sticking to the notion that its hybrids, with just a few miles of electric charge, would remain its “technology bridge” until lithium-ion batteries were the past and hydrogen was the dominant zero-emission technology."