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When hydrogen is available many places, the cars that BMW, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota make will be more interesting and price for fuel cells are going the right direction. It is OK to start where pollution is very big. Cars for private transport pollute so little that in the big picture it is hardly visible.

The mining is an issue. Destroying the earth is more than that. Has nothing to do with oil drillings at all. There is no balanced or good way of drilling after something that eventually will no longer be there when all used up, and that is completely not needed. Only fools and horses believe that batteries are the good environmentally safe way to power vehicles transporting all of us and the items we think we cannot live without. They can recycle part of the materials at extremely high use of energy and polluting water while doing that. Most of the materials (that are or rare earths, just materials bonding the heavy batteries together, which is most of it) are not being reused, just thrown away. Money rules, make short sighted profit and destroy the planet our children shall have after us. Have as clean air as possible where you walk; the places where batteries are mined and produced - screw those living there. That is a disgusting way to think. Good stupid politic. Donald like your way of thinking. Not Donald Duck.

Honda reveals new 2024 CR-V hydrogen car details By ALICIA MOORE https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/alicia-2-2-2/ The vehicle will be equipped with two H2 tanks installed in its rear, among other notable alterations. Honda has announced that it is developing a new hydrogen car, which will be a version of its popular CR-V SUV, and that it will have plug-in capability. The automaker first began talking about its intentions to work with H2 once again last year. The automaker had previously worked on the Clarity Fuel Cell, which it discontinued in 2021. Now, it is taking a new angle with a hydrogen car, which will take shape as an altered version of its popular SUV, the CR-V. Last year, the company announced that its next-generation H2 fuel cell passenger vehicle, which would be based on its CR-V SUV, will roll out for sale in North America and Japan next year. It will be powered by a fuel cell system the automaker developed in a collaboration with GM. This will involve two H2 tanks stored at the rear of the SUV, as well as an intelligent power unit under the seat and a drive unit and fuel cell system mounted as a single unit under the hood. While it will have a battery, it won’t offer much power to the CR-V as it is quite small – small enough not to have been worthy of mention on Honda’s general diagram of the vehicle. According to the automaker, it will have an additional power export function. It isn’t clear specifically where the Honda hydrogen car will be sold once it is available in 2024. Honda has not yet announced specifically where it will be making the new hydrogen car available for sale. When it was selling the Clarity Fuel Cell, it was available only in California. That said, it has specified that the H2 CR-V’s production will start in 2024 and that it will be made at the Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio. It also pointed out that the vehicles made there will include those intended for export to Japan. Though the automaker hasn’t said much in terms of specifics about the hydrogen car, it did provide additional information about its next-generation fuel system. American Honda Motor Company Senior Manager and Division Lead of its energy solution business division Ryan Harty explained that the new system has twice the durability as their older model and is “significantly faster” startup times at very cold temperatures (below -22ºF). Moreover, the hew fuel cell system costs two thirds less to build than that of the Clarity.

Hydrogen is the only source for power that is possibly good for the world. Why? Because hydrogen is made from water and when used will return to water which can be used to make hydrogen. Hydrogen can be stored. No matter how much material there is in the world. When it is used up, there is no more and what is worse: taking it from the ground where it is a lot of nature is destroyed. Right now, a company that had before been granted the right to start mining in Portugal is suddenly having problems. First with the locals and after a while now also with some of the politicians that liked the idea of getting people working there. Why shall we continue to destroy the earth, nature, animals living there in order to make something that when it is no longer functioning will be thrown out? Only fools and horses consider batteries as a permanent and excellent power source. All power sources have their problems, but the only source where they all can be solved without pollution is HYDROGEN! Electricity to make hydrogen can first come from nuclear plants. Later there may be enough from other greener sources. Nuclear plants do not pollute, but the left overs are dangerous. Unfortunately, time is against us. Water level is rising. Copenhagen is right now building artificial island and preparing the city against rising sea level. Flat countries know what can happen when sea is showing teeth. Holland has its dams and so far, they are sufficient there, but very many island around the world where salt water is making farm land useless are in big trouble.

Hydrogen can power very many things. Transporting people and goods in the air is one of the very much polluting. First here in from Holland and after that another on the other side of the earth. Hydrogen fuel collaboration forms with ZeroAvia, Shell, RHIA and Rotterdam The Hague Airport By BRET WILLIAMS https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/bret-2-2-2/ The partners will be working together to begin green flights using H2 to decarbonize starting in 2025. Zero-emission commercial aviation solution developer ZeroAvia has announced that it has signed a significant hydrogen fuel collaboration agreement with Shell, Rotterdam the Hague Innovation Airport (RHIA) and Rotterdam The Hague Airport. The group will be working together to develop H2 airport operations and demonstrate clean flights. The companies will be working together to create an operation concept for using hydrogen fuel in airports and for demonstration flights to European destinations by the close of next year. They will then begin commercial passenger flights by the end of 2025. As a next step along the cooperation commitment journey first announced in 2022 for the launch of the first H2-powered commercial flight, this particular collaboration will be directing its attention to providing the first H2 flight from Rotterdam. This will include everything from airport operation to on-the-ground infrastructure and operations development for achieving pilot distribution, storage, and dispensing of H2 as an aviation fuel, with a long-term aim to decarbonize the entire airport ecosystem. The project aims to support hydrogen fuel aircraft operations using ZeroAvia’s H2-powered engines. Through this project, further support will be provided to developing the operations required for flying planes using H2 gas as a fuel, using ZeroAvia’s zero-emission ZA600 engines. In this particular case, the demonstration flights will be used as a method of establishing airport routes in Europe within a 250 nautical mile radius of Rotterdam. In January, ZeroAvia conducted its first flight demonstration of its ZA600 engine prototype in a 19-seat aircraft. This new project will go beyond that technology and will aim to further develop the standards and protocols specific to aviation with respect to refueling, H2 management, and safety. In this way, when the engine’s rollout and the use of hydrogen fuel is ready, it will occur seamlessly. In this collaboration, each of the participants will be working together in discussions with various potential airline operators for a first demonstration of the technology, operations and procedures, for the purpose of establishing commercial flights within the next few years. Next is New Zealand: Hydrogen plane granted experimental airworthiness certificate by the FAA By JOHN MAX https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/john-2-2-2/ Universal Hydrogen completed its first taxi tests, received its certificate, inked an Air New Zealand agreement. Universal Hydrogen has announced that following the first taxi tests of its hydrogen plane, it has been granted a special airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA issued the certificate in the experimental category, giving the company the go ahead for the first flight of the H2-powered regional aircraft. The company released a video showing the first taxi tests of the aircraft, and its successful performance. The video showed that the hydrogen plane performed successfully during the taxi tests, which are intended to provide an evaluation of the craft’s ground handling qualities in addition to the performance of the fuel cell electric powertrain’s use at low airspeeds and power settings. The test involved the use of a Dash 8-300 flying testbed, which was equipped with a megawatt-class H2 fuel cell powertrain which was built into one of its nacelles. The aircraft’s powertrain is similar to the first product configuration the company developed, which was a conversion kit for ATR 72-600 regional airliners. The company expects that it will receive its certification in order to start commercial passenger service in two years. The design of this fuel cell hydrogen plane doesn’t require the use of a hybrid battery layout. Instead of using a hybrid architecture for its powertrain, Universal Hydrogen’s power is transmitted entirely from the fuel cells into the electric motor. In this way, weight is considerably reduced, as is the lifecycle cost. The new approval from the FAA has paved the way for the company’s first flight of the aircraft. It will conduct this flight in Washington state, from the Grant County International Airport located in Moses Lake. This first flight will represent the largest fuel cell powered craft to fly, and will be the second largest H2-powered aircraft to fly, second only to a test craft flown by the Soviet Union in 1988. That was a Tupolev Tu-155 airliner with a jet engine converted for burning H2 instead of jet fuel. At the same time as the announcement about the hydrogen plane taxi tests and the FAA certification, Universal Hydrogen also announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Air New Zealand as a component of that airlines growing Mission Next Gen Aircraft program.

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The higher the number the stronger and probably also stiffer the tyre. What is strange though is to get new tyres on front wheel. The new tyres should always be put on rear wheel. Unless the rear tyres were new when the front tyres got on.

When you buy a car (hybrid or not) you are not at all told that you have to drive it regularly. I was never told that. Is such a thing common knowledge? Do not think so. If a battery is not lasting at least the 2 years most things are warranted without any special information needed the 12V battery should be replaced if faulty for whichever reason and that without any salesperson trying to avoid the expenses by saying things that are not mentioned when buying the car.

Since 2004 Samsung. Because it is easy to get rid of all the spam Google and Samsung think they are allowed to put in the phones in order to get user data that are exactly none of their business. Apple chose the company that give most money. So does most other companies. Ethics are written on the wall and that is where they stay.

Nobody know exactly what is going on in the closed chambers in Toyota building. The former pro hydrogen is now CEO and no matter who replaced him in his former job, the CEO might have the final say. Had a Betamax camera, real great thing, better than any VHS camera at the time. Now the top smartphones have higher resolution (not as good lenses) and can take 4K movies in reaonable quality, so no reason to cry over the Philips 1 vs. Sony 0. Money rules! Some politicians are getting better advice now as I have read that it is said that only gasoline and diesel engines will be non grata and quite a few governments are now investing in hydrogen start-ups. Many here on the forum think only of cars when talking about transporting whatever we think we need from one end of the world to another, even though container-ships and airplanes are polluting so much more than the micropart our cars pollute. Cement factories are not taxed for polluting as politicians have the idea the we need cement as starting using other materials would need somebody to start thinking and that hurt. Aalborg Portland (biggest polluter in Denmark) and Maersk (maybe biggest shipping company in the world transporting containers all over) joined forces (and some money) to start using hydrogen. Just like with Toyota, what is being talked about in top floor offices in so big companies is not public entertainment so we may not hear much about what is happening before it has happened. The batteries that today can be charged very fast are not the batteries lasting the longest time.

Your car is far more automatic than the old CT. Auto A/C does not adjust temperature, only change fan speed and just like when driving in ECO mode it is far too little. In winter we have 22° C and in summer 25 -27 when it is hot so we do not have too big difference in car and outside of car. Too much A/C can give many people a constant feeling of getting a cold or flu.

Auto function is like ECO trying to save fuel instead of heating and removing water as much as the car is able to. Toyota use this so it is possible to get near the promised use of fuel. A/C on = more fuel. Better climate inside car. The one we have should be able to drive 100km on onluy 3.8L, and that is not possible. 50% more and all comfort features functioning and the cars are great. We use auto but here there are no problems with cold or water and our car is inside garage at night.

I am sure that you are not the only one. But the places where material for batteries are taken out of the earth and where batteries are made and where sooner or later all the not reusable parts of batteries are stored will pollute a lot more than many think and pollution is not something that you can keep where you pollute. It spread to even the place where you live.

Have you ever heard about lobbyism? An almost legal way to bribe politicians (at least if kept secret). Just look at the elected politicians that got caught accepting money from outside of EU and "maybe" helped these.

With all the "if" you mention I think the better answer would have been "maybe". Most of the electric car would probably have been OK. But "maybe" the useful range of a 10-year-old battery would be rather limited. "If" fuel price will be acceptable in 10-years is a political question.

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If you know how much the batteries in phones and computers degrade then you know how much the battery cells in cars degrade. They only are computer controlled to fool people. I never said that. What did you never say? What I just said.

Just say that 95% of population accept being lied to because that will let them sleep well at night and not worry about what they are doing to their children and children’s children. Ruining the planet, we live on, by using more than is regenerated naturally. Cool, we just put twice as many cells in the battery and let computer take care of managing it in order to fool the idiots buying them. Is that what car companies say behind closed doors? Or do you say that I am the one understanding nothing?

I think that this is the question started this : What's the problem with electric vehicles? There are no problems with electric cars. The problems are that some people believe what the companies that make the cars tell them.

Yes, and all not very smart people believe that the batteries are not losing power when they are in a car, but when in computers and phones they do. Most people believe what they want to believe and bless them. Believe in Facebook and Twitter and all that is written in these time-wasting anti-social forums. Unfortunately, quite a lot in this forum accept that they are being lied to, but what is to expect?

Meaning that they are actually bull****ting and that is accepted. So no better batteries in cars than in phones and whatever else is battery-powered.

So, what you are saying is that in order not to accept that batteries degrade they are having intelligent computer systems charging and having 30 - 50% larger and heavier batteries than needed in order not to inform that the batteries are losing power just like phones and computers. Thus, accepting that batteries are losing power just like batteries do.

Would also be great and function if you have 2 EV cars and use the one that is charged. Of course you will have to charge several times if going to visit family in other countries, like we do.

That is what I did with the Golf 2.0tdi DSG before MOT. Drive fast 10 minutes in low gear and exhaust was cleaned. Do not know if engine was cleaned as never had any problems with it from 2005, only regular service more or less yearly, till we got the CT.