Posted in: Tokyo area enters power-saving period amid tight supply forecast See in context
Somebody should tell them that when the sun is shining solar panel purpurnes highest
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Posted in: China's largest EV maker eyes control of Southeast Asia market See in context
(1) No one has ever associated Chinese-made with "reliable
No one has ever associated Japanese made with "reliable“- US Automakers 1970
things change and they change fast
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Posted in: Toyota debuts hydrogen-fueled race car as auto racing begins shift away from gas guzzlers See in context
From a unit of green energy you can either power a single hydrogen combustion car; or 20 battery vehicles. Hydrogen is simply too inefficient and impractical to make it ever into mainstream.
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Posted in: Toyota puts liquid hydrogen-powered car into 24-hour race See in context
AS
Some people think they know everything even when they haven't lived in the environment they are talking about
there are users up there putting those cars to test and documenting it.
from https://www.carscoops.com/2023/02/tesla-model-s-sets-cold-weather-distance-record-in-norwegian-test/amp/ :
„The Model S's range dropped just 16% in cold-weather testing, as compared to the Toyota bZ4X, whose range dropped by 35%“
Yeah, I would stay away from Toyota.
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Posted in: Toyota puts liquid hydrogen-powered car into 24-hour race See in context
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjKwSF9gT8
For anybody interested a above is a nice video showing how ridiculous hydrogen combustion is for cars - using numbers and real world examples
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Posted in: Toyota puts liquid hydrogen-powered car into 24-hour race See in context
And comparing an E-cycle to a car, are you seriou?
you are the one who is advocating a hydrogen car for Africa. So your are the Joker. Once a significant fraction of population there can afford a car you can be sure than sufficient electric infrastructure will be there; in the meantime you will have e-cycles or e-scooters (latter transition is happening in China and Indonesia).
You can promote Hydrogens all you want; once subsidies run dry Japan will realize with a bitter hangover that they are 10 years behind the Chinese.
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Posted in: Toyota puts liquid hydrogen-powered car into 24-hour race See in context
Now you live in Africa!
You have the choice and EV car or a hydrogen car.
are you saying Africa does not have a sun and roofs to put on solar panels ?
Just Google Solar E-Cycles.
Or you live is northern Canada or Russian, it is -40°C and 500km between towns again no power lines.
How many millions cars does Toyota sell in there ? You can come up with edge cases but they won’t matter in the mass market. On top of that Norway has 80% ev adoption rate to further ridicule your argument !
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Posted in: Toyota puts liquid hydrogen-powered car into 24-hour race See in context
Japan and Germany will be the only countries betting on the inefficient hydrogen vehicles - a bet they will loose.
Hydrogen is meantime here to stay and growing exponentially.
still dreaming ? Just look at the sales numbers of battery vehicles vs hydrogen.
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Posted in: U.S. approves selling Taiwan munitions worth $619 million See in context
Given that the legitimate government of China escaped to Taiwan many decades ago I would say that „China ist a part of Taiwan“
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Posted in: China removes its buoy from Japan's EEZ near Senkakus
Posted in: China removes its buoy from Japan's EEZ near Senkakus
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Posted in: Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi drop their talks on business integration