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Aw, man, doesn't that make me basically a nobody?

I am an October reservation so I expect to take delivery sometime in the post-apocalypse era. Maybe after the sun has swallowed Mercury and Venus. As such, I let my dealer know I would delay ordering until later in the window before 3/19. I let him know this was intentional so that he could...

Um, no, not really an urban legend. I was around in the 70s. I remember media talking about a looming ice age.

Wut?

Go back and look for my posts in this thread, that'll get you started. Then look for TFL's videos on hydrogen vehicles. The son takes the pro- position. They were test driving a Toyota Mirai, which is available for purchase in California and in Europe.

I agree that the H2 fueling station and upstream generation is a chicken and egg problem. If I were Thanos I would make H2 generating stations at harbors, Thank you! This is the kind of high quality content that keeps us coming back to read Bronco6G.

https://www.toyota.com/content/ebrochure/2019/mirai_FuelCellTech.pdf Here's a document talking about how Toyota builds the hydrogen fuel tank for the Mirai, among other subjects. They seem to think they've solved the problem of exploding tanks. Time will tell. I'm curious on another subject -...

how does a president singlehandedly affect supply - by canceling the Canadian oil sands pipeline. That just guaranteed that the oil stays in the ground untiI market prices soar high enough to justify trucking it out instead of piping it out.

H2 is apparently not more dangerous. It’s so light that it flits away in case of a breach, rather than hanging out in both vapor and liquid form like gasoline does. but an engineer or chemist might be a better resource here

Batteries are chemistry, not magic. You don't have a place to charge, the ability to charge fast enough, or the practical range for driving. For non-Tesla superchargers you have to charge 8 hours in order to drive 5 hours. That does not work in the real world. It does not scale. And then...

Why some folks just aren't getting it ... they don't live where people don't have garages, and can't/won't consider how this drastically changes the usefulness of a Battery Electric Car. Less than 40% of rental dwelling units across the country have a garage or carport. It's about 50% for all...

Hydrogen can be generated from sea water. Very simple to produce. Apply electrical current, crack H2O into H2 (goes into storage tanks, for hauling to the gas station) and O2 (goes into the atmosphere where it's perfectly natural). When hydrogen is used in the car, the waste product is simply...

An important part about hydrogen cars that I omitted - they're electric cars driven by hydrogen. The drive train functions very much like a Tesla, Ford Mach-E, etc. What's happening is that the H2 from your gas tank goes into a catalyst chamber to react with O2 from the air. This process...

I will have to look for use of hydrogen in an internal combustion engine. Much of what I claim to know about hydrogen cars comes from watching TFL videos, plus Popular Mechanics magazine. The son on TFL takes the pro-hydrogen position. Big caveat - we would need to build a nationwide network...

What COULD work is a technology that the greens ignore - HYDROGEN. These cars don’t burn hydrogen. They use H2 to react with O2 in the air to make H2O. The H2 can be cracked from sea water using green electricity production that doesn’t depend on time and load. Just make it all day every day...

You need giant lithium battery packs that need to be dug up and processed. They wear out. Then you need more lithium battery packs. All this on the scale of tens of millions of vehicles per year. Only the Tesla supercharger is even somewhat reasonably fast. The other brands are so slow as to be...

Looks like a Bronco from the front and Grand formerly-known-as-Cherokee from the side. Love the signature headlights. Love that they’re getting them but Black Diamond cannot... WTF?

Hey, hey. Bring it over to New Jersey. Everything’s legal in Jersey!

Right? What stimulus money? All’s I got was the bill. But I shouldn’t complain. I’ve eaten well for the past year and just sent a Badlands order to my dealership. Could be worse. Could be room temperature.

Three kids in tow? Bronco is not big enough. You need something with a third row, or a massive width. Bronco is OK if you have a second vehicle that's a minivan or three rows or something like that, but not if it's the only vehicle in the house. Source: married father of two kids, high...