Despite the obvious benefits of electric vehicles, Toyota has been sticking with it for the past decade hydrogen Will win in the end. However, as a company Announces its third-generation fuel cell systemyou can say it can finally admit failure by default: the new unit is designed for industrial applications, where hydrogen is obviously always more meaningful.
The new battery is designed to meet “special needs in the commercial sector” with a focus on the durability of a diesel engine. Sitting on the same footprint as the second generation model, the power produced and output is much higher than fuel efficiency, twice as much as output. Given Toyota’s love for shrinking engine technology, this size is not a big factor here, and it illustrates where these cells are.
Toyota will never make the economic or technical argument of hydrogen cars better than electricity ( MiraiToyota’s flagship hydrogen EV has only 28,000 models sold since its birth in 2014). But for heavy-duty vehicles, battery weight and power are more pressing, and hydrogen defects will become assets. Trucks, construction vehicles, trains, boats and backup generators (less risks due to the lack of general-purpose hydrogen infrastructure) are welcome homes for fuel cells.
