I have a hard time believing that this announcement is just a straight up lie. If they don’t have an actual working prototype, regardless of scale costs that they may be ignoring, wouldn’t they be open to a stakeholder suit for misleading the investors?
You are reading WAY too much into this. As many of other posts have already pointed out that YES this is feasible… but with very expensive, one-off prototype hardware. There’s no lie in that. It is simply exaggerating the HELL out of the truth because this ain’t going to see production for a long ass time (and most definitely at reduced specs).
As I mentioned in my post about hydrogen powered concept cars from like 20 years ago - many of them were indeed running (or sort of running), but they were far, far from near-production.
Toyota is in fact actively selling hydrogen cars. The Mirai is not awful, as long as you get a lease that includes free hydrogen. They’re probably losing tons of money on each one, but they’re selling them lol.
They aren’t ignoring scaling if your read the article…
Often there are breakthroughs at the prototype stage but then scaling it up is difficult,” he said. “If it is a genuine breakthrough it could be a gamechanger, very much the holy grail of battery vehicles.”
I have a hard time believing that this announcement is just a straight up lie. If they don’t have an actual working prototype, regardless of scale costs that they may be ignoring, wouldn’t they be open to a stakeholder suit for misleading the investors?
You are reading WAY too much into this. As many of other posts have already pointed out that YES this is feasible… but with very expensive, one-off prototype hardware. There’s no lie in that. It is simply exaggerating the HELL out of the truth because this ain’t going to see production for a long ass time (and most definitely at reduced specs).
As I mentioned in my post about hydrogen powered concept cars from like 20 years ago - many of them were indeed running (or sort of running), but they were far, far from near-production.
Toyota is in fact actively selling hydrogen cars. The Mirai is not awful, as long as you get a lease that includes free hydrogen. They’re probably losing tons of money on each one, but they’re selling them lol.
The Mirai is far, far from a “production” car.
They aren’t ignoring scaling if your read the article…