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Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai (techcrunch.com)
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Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai::Toyota is offering some amazing deals for its hydrogen fuel cell-powered Mirai. That is, if customers can find the hydrogen to power it.

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[–] baru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using hydrogen to store the occasional grid overhead to be used for the grid later is a great idea

A factory which only runs some of the time will be really expensive. From what I've seen it's way more cost effective to rely on batteries for surplus electricity.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So far grid scale battery storage only scales to stabilizing the grid. It’s better than anything else at that, but it’s not cost effective to for example power a town overnight until solar is back