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posted by mrpg on Friday November 17 2017, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the Sonnō-jōi dept.

Hydrogen!

At a car factory in this city named after Toyota, the usual robots with their swinging arms are missing. Instead, workers intently fit parts into place by hand with craftsmanship-like care.

The big moment on the assembly line comes when two bulbous yellow tanks of hydrogen are rolled over and delicately fitted into each car's underside.

While much of the world is going gung-ho for electric vehicles to help get rid of auto emissions and end reliance on fossil fuels, Japan's top automaker Toyota Motor Corp. is banking on hydrogen.

Toyota sells about 10 million vehicles a year around the world. It has sold only about 4,000 Mirai fuel cell vehicles since late 2014, roughly half of them outside Japan.

Is Toyota going to build the network of hydrogen-refueling stations to serve its hydrogen-powered cars?


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @05:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @05:30PM (#598253)

    Classic Lefty-government-does-business "success story." It may be terribly inefficient, horrendously impractical, but it is our duty to do the just thing, and use other people's money to try to make it work!

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 17 2017, @06:49PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday November 17 2017, @06:49PM (#598311) Homepage Journal

    In California they have Crazy Jerry. Who isn't as crazy as he looks. He makes a big show of how Green he is. He's not Green, he's Brown. He files to Paris, flies to Bonn, flies to the Vatican and says "Oh no, the Trump factor! Oh no, the climate is changing!" While in California they had a big, big leak. They had a TREMENDOUS gas leak at Aliso Canyon by Los Angeles. The biggest. Folks, the company that leaked it was Sempra Energy. Which is one of their gas companies. And Crazy Jerry's sister is on the board of Sempra. His sister Kathleen. So he lets them do what they want. When their family is on your board of directors, they let you do what you want.

    I'll tell you, a lot of our hydrogen comes from gas. It's a great thing for our gas companies. Of which Sempra is one of the biggest in California. So hydrogen is a great thing for them. It looks very Green because there's no exhaust. It's not Green. But it's great for our fossil fuel industry. So it's great for Kathleen Brown. #MAGA 🇺🇸