Very lightweight uneducated argument against BEV, ..but it's Rowan Atkinson (earning media amplification regardless)

[Mr Gus]

More Rowan Atkinson hydrogen driving antics..

This time on the toyota youtube channel.. it is not fuel cell, instead there is a hydrogen fuel tank & direct feed for combustion of a tweaked ice engine, apparantly!

[Mart]

Engineering explained has just done another vid looking at liquid HICE. He's previously looked at compressed H2 for HFCV's and HICEV's.

Spoiler alert - It doesn't get any better for hydrogen this time.

Edit - Should explain, this looks at racing, as LHICE for 'normal' cars, is simply stupid ....... or the next big thing perhaps, if your surname is Toyoda.

[nowty]

For F1 from 2026 the plan is to make a synthetic fuel by synthesising methanol out of green hydrogen and CO2 extracted from the air ( ), then re-synthesising it again to make a near gasoline type fuel. So the CO2 emitted from the engine has already been taken out of the air.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/11/fo ... tic-fuels/
Perhaps the best-publicized of these efforts is the one that Porsche is involved in. Together with Siemens and ExxonMobil, Porsche has invested in a synthetic fuel plant in Punta Arenas, Chile. Captured CO2 from the air and hydrogen generated via electrolysis powered by wind turbines are used to synthesize methanol, which in turn is made into longer hydrocarbons using a methanol-to-gasoline process. The project is in its pilot stage now but plans to scale up to 14.5 million gallons (55 million L) by 2024 and 145 million gallons (550 million L) by 2026; long-term plans call for 12 such plants, each capturing 2 million metric tons of CO2 a year.