Quote Originally Posted by Rally Power View Post
Diesel generators?!? For gods sake mate, I obviously care about the environment protection and believe EV’s are the future but only if they’re based on a clean source, like Hydrogen.

Current EV’s are powered by the electricity grid, which globally is mainly based on burning coal (EV’s largest market is China and local electricity is 70% coal sourced, the same for India and most of Asia, South America, Africa and so on; even in some European countries coal is still a huge source and its also coming back in the US); to promote its intensive use is a short seeing politic that won’t help bringing CO2 levels down.

We should be strongly pushing for Hydrogen, but probably that wouldn’t make the renewable energy lobby happy and car manus also needed a faster (and cheaper) solution to survive after the Diesel scandal. Shortly: EV’s are good, but not in the current way.
If you look at Norway, the situation is a bit different, the electricity I use for charging my cars is made from water/hydro powerplants only. So it is as carbonclean as possible.

Looking at Hydrogen/fuelcell tech is imteresting only until the next gen batteries comes along. I think hydrogen is a parenteses. But maybe Toyota finds a better way than todays picture.