Despite the obvious advantages of electric vehicles, Toyota spent the last decade, insisting hydrogen I would win at the end. But as a company announces his system of fuel elements of the third generationYou can say that he is finally ready to adopt the defeat: the new cell is intended for industrial applications, where hydrogen clearly always made sense.
The new cell is designed to satisfy the “special needs of the commercial sector”, dedicated to the durability equal to the diesel engine. This is much more effective, cheaper, and takes twice as much power, sitting in the same place than the second generation model. Given Toyota’s love to reduce its engine technology, this size is not a factor that this very much says about where it suggests that these cells are used.
Toyota will never be able to make an economic or technological argument for hydrogen cars as the best option than electricity ( MiraiThe flagship hydrogen EV Toyota managed to sell only 28,000 models since his birth of 2014). But for heavy vehicles, where the weight of the battery and power are more urgent problems, the disadvantages of hydrogen turn into assets. Trucks, construction vehicles, trains, ships and reserve generators are less at risk of lacking in general use infrastructure-welcome houses for fuel elements.