This car doesn’t exist.
The hydrogen capsules don’t exist either.
It’s a conceptual mock-up of what such a system might look like. So it has no actual range or refuel time. Also, a line of hydrogen tanks built into the rear bumper would never be approved for public roads for obvious reasons.
For me the clincher is that NONE of the global oil corporations have invested any significant % of their literal trillions in hydrogen fuel infrastructure. Even though it would save their ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL in the face of rising EV technology. Tells us ALL we need to know.
My Kona #BEV is 5 1/2 years old & is a smidge under 125,000 miles on the clock. The WLTP for this car is 300 miles. Just completed a charge to 100% with predicted range on the GOM, which is usually pretty accurate, of 301 miles.
So don’t talk to me about battery degradation.😎
Exactly my point, gaslights were just about everywhere while Edison worked on his electric light bulb. Now gaslights are just about nowhere because of that same electric lighting. Technologies always overlap as the new renders the old obsolete.
Engineering professor @willett.bsky.social answers electric car questions@wired.com #EV
This is great video and gets into EV battery life, maintenance, and overall environmental impact vs ICE cars.
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Edison used gaslight to design and manufacture the lightbulb. How did that work out for gaslights?
Starmer declaring “we have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU” is a significant moment.
Reflects transformation in public opinion + need for economic growth.
The HiLux FCEV is coming in 2028. It’s got 134kW, 600km range, and 3 hydrogen tanks which is great if you live at a hydrogen station. Spoiler: you don’t. It’s like buying a jet ski in the Simpson Desert. The BEV HiLux arrives in 2026 and just plugs into a wall.
The all new Nexo is going to sell just like the all old Nexo …
Didn’t they get a clue from the word “bankruptcy” ?
Zero Car Tour Interview.
Riversimple have been operating for over 20 years and have never delivered even a single car to a paying customer.
"It's easier to move hydrogen then electricity" is laughable. Electrical resistance is nothing compared to rolling resistance and wind resistance.
You also can't make hydrogen at home. Not much loss from your roof to your car.
Nearly half of people knew that 10 years ago.
Naomi Smith, "For the last ten years we've had successive governments tell us what a great thing Brexit is"
"Well our polling shows that nearly 2/3 of people think Brexit has been more of a failure than a success"
What is the advantage of hydrogen internal combustion over a fuel cell in a bus?
Lower up-front cost
No PGMs
But:
Same expensive fuel
Same expensive tanks
Same expensive fuel infrastructure
Same limited range
Similar maintenance cost
And:
Lower km per kg
More NOx
Is it a gamechanger?
No.
Holger, can I lend you an envelope? On the back of it you could do the calculations required to show how much it would cost. You would never post the same thing again, I promise!
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is brought to you from the future. Yes, this project is so dumb I can break news of its failure even before it's happened. Innovate UK and Swansea are supporting a project to use floating offshore wind to make green hydrogen. Taxpayers, rise up!
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It's a genuine question. There is no truly stranded renewable energy - where it is claimed there is, we should be building HVDC cables. Even if only 50% of the power reaches the other end and is not constrained, that is cheaper and better for the climate than any pathway involving hydrogen!
You’re a “senior technology reporter” and this is your comment?
I put Tesla's Full Self Driving (Supervised) through 5 kiwi challenges to trip it up. It broke the law a couple of times but was still safer than the guy who blasted through a red light halfway through!
Also, the singer in question was NOT Kenny Everett... 😂
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
Blue or turquoise hydrogen. Or direct electrical nitrogen fixing via electro chemical processes, plasma etc. Or do nitrogen fertiliser without ammonia, eg cCM [note: I'm an angel investor]. Or direct biological methods like Pivot Bio. But also, stop over-applying, runoff, etc. Well, you did ask :-)
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from #Namibia, where the country's hydrogen champion James Mnyupe has gone, and RWE had pulled out. None of the country's much-touted green ammonia projects make the slightest sense. Sad to see so much time and effort wasted.
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The latest Clean Hydrogen Monitor, produced by industry lobby group #HydrogenEurope, predicts the EU will produce 1.7 million tonnes of #greenhydrogen domestically by 2030. The EU's current target? 10 million tonnes! - via the Green Hydrogen Organisation
#hydrogensoufflé
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as @mliebreich.bsky.social put it in May 2025 #HydrogenSoufflé
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I don't see it happening, not even it the corners that were supposed strengths
(Long distance trucking eg)
The Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy.
BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.
Electrification+renewables are far more efficient.
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How does it relieve demand on electricity?
Their car is light because it’s a tiny 2 seat prototype runabout with almost no boot. It has none of the basics of an actual production car. So no airbags, no electric windows, not even any heating system. I’m not sure how it’s an example of anything?
Riversimple have been operating for over 20 years and have never delivered even a single car to a paying customer. That’s not exactly a shining example for hydrogen FCEV cars.
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from California, where the maker of the world's first H2 ferry has sunk. “The technologies we developed, the proof points we created, the expertise we built, will continue to shape the future of hydrogen for years to come.” Quite.
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