Swapping these out in future is gonna be a huge and expensive job.
Safe / environmentally friendly disposal of these huge battery packs is gonna be a nightmare.
It already is...and...it already is.
The electric power source scenario has been so deeply invested in economically and politically on so many levels there is no turning back...at least not in the US.
Why did the industry ever turn away from alternate fuel sources for internal combustion?
Natural gas (what could be greener or cleaner, straight from the earth) propane and hydrogen all combust to a virtually carbonless state, especially when compared against my favorite, Ethanol.
In addition modern day automobile/ICE emissions are impressively clean burning especially when compared to what an ICE was emitting 25 years ago.
I know i sound like a broken record, for those that remember what a record player is, but as always be it health care or future power sources, once the politicians/do-gooders get wrapped into it say goodbye to common sense.
Leave it to the Japanese to end run the ever popular twitter mandates and adopt a more progressive and sensible stance on a clean burning ICE with limitless fuel.
This engine/fuel combination exhausts water vapor.
Hydrogen is a potential solution for keeping internal-combustion engines alive in a world of zero emissions, and Toyota is backing it.
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