Toyota Unveils ‘An Engine Reborn’ with Green Fuel Amid Global Shift to Electric Vehicles

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1. Saved you a click: It’s dirty hydrogen

   Hard pass 👎🏾

2. An engine designed to run on bioethanol or hydrogen…..

   Using green electricity to produce green hydrogen, then burning it in an engine is nearly 3x LESS efficient than using the electricity to charge a battery connected to an electric motor. 3x less efficient is 3x more expensive in fuel cost.

   Producing biofuel requires a lot of land area. It is not realistic to power more than a small fraction of overall transport with biofuel. There is only one form of transport for which liquid hydrocarbon fuel is the only practical form of power:- jet aircraft. Fortunately there is roughly enough farmland available to provide bio-jetfuel for our existing number of jet aircraft, PROVIDED we don’t fly significantly more, and PROVIDED nobody else also wants to use much of the biofuel.

   TLDR Toyota’s engine reborn is a white elephant. Land transport will have to transition to electric motors powered by batteries and overhead cables.

3. Just a distraction to fool people into thinking alt fuel ICE engines are the next big thing. Toyota is desperate to stall the transition to EVs any way they can since they initially dismissed EVs and now are hopelessly behind their competitors. This is just a retread of Toyota’s bad faith distraction campaigns involving fuel cell vehicles.

4. What are consumers going to choose:

   a) A polluting combustion engine that burns fuel that is minimum 3x more expensive and half as efficent as gas.

   b) A 90% efficient EV that costs $3 to fill on cheap overnight electricity/daytime solar and has minimal maintenance.

   Seems pretty simple to me.

5. These ICE engineers should go back to school and learn to design electric motors.

6. At this point Toyota seems to want to make a meme out of themselves. I hope they will make up their mind and focus on EVs at some point.