Thread by @stekkerauto

you can’t make this up:

Toyota’s 𝗹𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 ‘𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻-𝗻𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹’ 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 Corolla racer won't be racing this weekend.
Why, you may ask?

A fire caused by a hydrogen leak & the thing went up in flames.

Toyota’s belief in Hydrogen fuel cell cars is peak silly, but running cars on liquefied hydrogen is next-level stupid.

all those engineering hours would be better applied transitioning the company to EVs, @Toyota

Toyota Research Institute head Gill Pratt on #Technologieoffenheit:

"When I look out my window, I don't see just one kind of tree. I see trees that grow well in rocky soil and trees that do well where there is a lot of soil. I see trees for wet soils and trees for dry soils." 🤷‍♀️

Toyota’s Research Institute Gill Pratt (ex-MIT, no less):

“With its larger battery, one EV needs as much lithium as six comparably sized PHEVs. According to Toyota's calculation, the six PHEVs avoid 5.5x as much CO2 as one EV.” 😳🤯

His comparison is even more stark with simple hybrid powertrains, which forgo the plug-in charging function. “With the lithium for a battery electric car, 90 hybrids can be equipped that save 35 times as much carbon dioxide as the one battery electric car.” 😂 ☠️

source: F.A.Z.