Can’t you just break down water, use the hydrogen to power the electric motor, and I don’t think O2 as a byproduct is bad, now this is of course an ideal condition, but why hasn’t this been looked into more?
Can’t you just break down water, use the hydrogen to power the electric motor, and I don’t think O2 as a byproduct is bad, now this is of course an ideal condition, but why hasn’t this been looked into more?
Toyota has made various working prototype hydrogen combustion engines, so it’s not impossible these could end up in production in the nearish future (they’ve done a hydrogen version of at least the GR Yaris/Corolla engine, a V6, and a V8).
They specifically said they were R&D units and never intended any to go to production. Sometimes they do that to gather data. Hydrogen combustion simply isn’t efficient enough for a production vehicle. You’ll be surprised by the amount of crazy tests car manufacturers do. This includes methanol/ethanol cars, natural gas ICE engines, solar panels, all sort of crazy experimental batteries.