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This is the correct take, Honda really sucks at engineering EVs.

Thought they could get away with rebadging some mediocre Dong Feng SUV after making a small and interesting little car but charging double what it was actually worth.

Honda Is Giving Up on the All-Electric Dream Citing massive losses and a cooling market, the Japanese auto giant is backing away from an all-electric future in a huge blow to the EV industry and a sign that the road to clean cars just got a lot ...

Apparently, “Honda giving up on the all electric dream” is a “huge blow to the EV industry”. 🤪

No, it’s a huge blow to Honda and the Japanese car industry.

The #BEV industry has been growing fine without them, and Toyota, for over a decade now. gizmodo.com/honda-is-giv...

BEV & PHEV share of ALL cars on road

Norway was 32% in 2024, up from 12% in 2019
Sweden was 13% in 2024, up from 2% in 2019
China was 11% in 2024, up from 1.5% in 2019
World was 4.5% in 2024, up from 0.6% in 2019

China could be 100% EV by 2050.
#energysky ourworldindata.org/electric-car...

YouTube video by Mark Felton Productions Hiroshima's 'Atomic' Trams - Working Survivors of the 1945 Bomb

There are electric streetcars still running in Hiroshima today that were repaired and put back on the tracks after the atomic bombing in August 1945. One was only 700m from the centre of the blast. youtu.be/gbXwuwnx8Fc?...

There’s no chance a hydrogen car could power a car 5x farther than electric. The longest range EVs on the road are battery powered, not hydrogen powered.

Hydrogen tanks in cars are stronger because the fuel must be massively compressed to between 350 and 700 times normal atmospheric pressure.

Is H2 the future? - No.

Liebreich: The Pragmatic Climate Reset - Part I | BloombergNEF As the tide on clean energy turns, Michael Liebreich makes a strong case for a pragmatic climate reset.

<<< Breaking! My latest for Bloomberg >>>

Why rumours of the death of the transition are exaggerated, and why it's time for a #PragmaticClimateReset.

Part I of a two-parter - my attempt to reframe the conversation about climate action, net zero and the transition.

about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

I’ve just stated the facts.
There is no business model if there is no business. So I’m not sure how anyone can be considered a representative of any kind of business model if that model has never actually been put into operation.

So they have been operating for 24 years but they are still a “startup”?
Does pre-revenue mean that they have never actually earned any revenue over those 24 years?
I guess it must given they haven’t delivered even a single car to a paying customer.

What business model?
Riversimple have been operating for over 20 years and have never delivered even a single car to a paying customer?
How are they still operating I wonder? 🤔

We need to bear in mind I guess that while there are piloted aircraft that are solely battery powered. There are no equivalent aircraft that are solely hydrogen powered. They all have at least one conventional engine.

Yes they always say that producing hydrogen from intermittent renewables is simple and cheap, and yet no one ever seems to do that reliably or economically. Not even in California with all of their material, financial and technological resources.

You’ve just said that in countries like Namibia wind & solar aren’t intermittent. So it would be very easy to electrify those “far away” places just by deploying local solar & wind. You’re tying yourself in semantic knots trying to find a use for hydrogen so 50% of that energy can be thrown away.

Of course wind and sun are intermittent in Namibia. Also, 50% of the population there has no power - yet you want to waste electricity making fertilizer for 2x the market price. Not even the Europeans will buy it, because even at a $4/kg green hydrogen you would need a €250/TCO2 CBAM price. #Fail.

“people hate metric”
Apart from every scientist and engineer on the planet.

8, 14, 112 makes zero sense.
Like mm/dd/yy and Fahrenheit instead of dd/mm/yyyy and Celsius.

I feel a better analogy would be that a tariff is the economic equivalent of a hammer and to trump everything looks like a nail.

What is generally meant is the minimum energy required to do something (to deliver an Energy Service). It's not the same as exergy (the ability to do work). To calculate it, you identify the Best Available Technology for that use, then the BAT's energy need is Useful Energy, anything else is waste.

Hydrogen economy 🤣

Goodbye.

Abatement using hydrogen vs Direct use of renewable power

Seven ways to decarbonize steel:
- Hydrogen
- Direct electric reduction
- Biogas DRI
- Biochar coking
- CCS
- CDR
- Substitution eg glass rebar

Natgas DRI delivers 80% abatement at lowest €/TCO2.

Even with clean hydrogen, blue will beat green on cost while allowing RE to abate 2-9x more elsewhere.

It's not gloating it's deprogramming. Ignore if it takes you too far out of your comfort zone. FWIW, I've offered lots of cheaper clean alternatives - electrification, substitution, bio, CDR - you just don't like them. And if it has to be clean hydrogen, why not blue. Oh, you don't like that either.

Green hydrogen retreat poses threat to emissions targets Green hydrogen developers are cancelling projects and trimming investments around the world, raising the prospect of longer than targeted reliance on fossil fuels.

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from everywhere, via Reuters, who has realised that something is rotten in the state of #hydrogen. Immortal quote: "You might not want to call [green hydrogen] economic suicide, but in practice it would be just that."
- www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Just in case you’re wondering if that amazing @scotnational.bsky.social newspaper front page on Felon Trump’s visit is real, here’s the answer.

A CWT is a hundredweight or 100 lbs.
So 30 CWT is 3,000 lbs or 1.36 metric tonnes.

Citroen/Peugeot owner Stellantis axes hydrogen vehicles | Autocar Medium and large hydrogen fuel-cell vans cancelled as firm refocuses efforts on hybrids and BEVs

So yet another major manufacturer finally wakes up and accepts that #hydrogen #FCEV is just going nowhere.
There’s no demand and the running costs are just too high anyway.

Stellantis gives up on hydrogen due to poor infrastructure, high costs. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/tec...

I went to look at who you were replying to and found, to my delight, that they had already blocked me! I must have said something they found equally disagreeable. Good! 😊

“Less reliance on rare minerals”
Fuel cells use platinum and palladium.
Platinum is insanely rare and costly and requires vast amounts of mining just for a few grams. Palladium is 15 TIMES more rare and costly than platinum!!

Here’s a Ferrari-ready driveway.

What does it have in common with hydrogen-ready boilers?

Answer: Both are highly unlikely to be used for these purposes.