Toyota CEO: "This NEW Engine Will Destroy The Entire EV Industry!"

Powering an engine with hydrogen is by no means a new concept. The problem has always been the storage of the fuel.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” Never give up !

Hydrogen is not one of the most abundant elements in the universe, it is THE most abundant element in the universe.

Are H2 fuel cells available in a portable model, similar to gas cans? If you could refuel from a portable tank, that would go a long way to lessen the worry about running out.

Modern cars are getting as complicated as fighter jet aircraft and just as expensive to maintain.

Look at the Toyota Mirai. Only available in California in North America. Several of the fuelling stations where shut down and Toyota is currently off loading them with a $40,000 discount. You think there is a lack of electric charging now, wait till Toyota tries and rolls out hydrogen or ammonia(Toyota’s other engine) stations. How much does it cost to fill up a Toyota Mirai? True Zero is currently the lead hydrogen supplier in California, and currently charges $36 for a kilogram. The Mirai accommodates 5.6 kg of hydrogen in its 142.2-liter tank, meaning you'll have to spend $201.60 to refuel. This is an obscene amount that both fossil fuels and electricity drastically outprice.

I have a 1991 toyota camry v6..that is absolutely an amazing engine it has been one of the greatest engines toyota has ever made and when I tell you how excellent this engine is believe me they're the best on the planet..

"It won't be long before we start seeing these cars on the road..." Right, because hydrogen powered vehicles have been less than ten years from viable consumer sales for over 40 years.

Oil companies have been shutting these down for over forty years. Dallas's bus fleet was shut down. Yes, Dallas had a fleet of fuel cell buses.

Boy, wouldn't it be nifty if this engine actually existed in the real world.

Like others here . I own Toyota a real thanks in hard times the cheap cars I had were beyond reliable and helped me keep up to this moment while others suffered heavy damages I still run a tundra , had a Corolla and Camry old models sold running like new . Never had Trany or engine issues

The one negative is the filler hose can freeze when pumping hydrogen so the next vehicle will have to wait a bit for the nozzle to warm up.

problem is there is no hydrogen fuel stations

The only problem with your premise of the ease of using Hydrogen combustion engines is that hydrogen fuel prices have exploded from 1.93/kg in Canada last year, to $37/kg in the US today. That, combined with the fact that there are only some 44 hydogen fueling stations remaining in the U.S. makes this engine economically unviable.

The biggest issue is a Hydrogen supply, transportation and dispensing infrastructure. With today s pricey inflated economy I question how to afford same. My last car purchase for a 18 year old used SUV was aprox. 4K and we have had to repair and maintain for more. At 78 years young, my family doesn't have deep pockets for brand new cars and the wherewith to support a new Hydrogen supply system. If you gave us a new Hydrogen vehicle and not a single filling station in State I'm not a willing taker!

I looked into a Mirai, and the cost per mile was about the same as a 15mpg car at $5/gallon. We need more and cheaper hydrogen for this to be realistic.

Hydrogen powered cars are a bad idea specifically because the fuel must come from electricity. Every time you convert from one form of energy to another, you lose a percentage, and the more times you do this, the quicker those losses add up. So for this vehicle you have to produce the electricity from some combustion or renewable resource like solar, hydro or wind, loss #1. Then you convert back from electricity into hydrogen through electrolysis of water (either through a battery powered fuel cell or a fueling station that produces it on site), loss #2. Finally, you convert back into mechanical energy through internal combustion engine and drivetrain, which as it sits now with that tech you're losing at least 60% of the combusted fuel before it actually puts power to the ground, loss #3, which is enormous. This is why if you're going to go electric, batteries are the bees knees, because you only convert once directly from electrical to mechanical energy, putting power right to the ground. Charging of batteries is a relatively small loss compared to electrolysis as well. The one thing mentioned that's still unsolved is the rare earth metals and lithium needed to make the batteries right now, but overall straight up electric cars will continue to dominate this trend, and these hydrogen engines will be a huge waste of money. If Toyota invests too heavily it may sink the whole company. What companies should really be spending their R&D money on right now is battery tech. If we can get 500+ mile range in battery electric cars that compete price-wise with comparable ICE cars, it's all over for traditional automobiles, especially as oil becomes more and more scarce as time goes on. Mark my words, battery tech has already rendered these hydrogen engines obsolete before they were built, and as batteries get lighter and hold more charge for a given weight, this trend will continue.

As far as I’m aware electrolysis injector was developed in the seventies in which its inventor suddenly lost his life! & the blue prints were left for the world to see, so I don’t think it’s fare to say that Toyota has invented a water powered engine.

Whan Hydrogen is burned with air instead of Oxygen, the combustion creates nitrous oxides. So it is not only producing water. On top of that: Where does the Hydroben come from? It has to be produce with energy. That has to come from somewhere.

Near zero emissions completely ignoring the large carbon footprint of the manufacturing of the Hydrogen, that’s like saying EVs have zero emissions, in the same way your carbon footprint is increased when charging an EV from the grid, your carbon footprint and that of the H2 vehicle is also increased when you refill the H2 tanks as the Hydrogen also has to be manufactured with a carbon footprint. They need to stop using the term zero emissions because it’s not entirely accurate because it’s more a case of moving the carbon footprint or emissions to a different location.