Toyota CEO: "Our Ammonia Engine Is The End Of EV's"
2024 ж. 22 Сәу.
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Toyota CEO: "Our Ammonia Engine Is The End Of EV's"
When it comes to the automotive world, Toyota always seems to innovate something that will change the industry. Not so long ago, the Toyota CEO announced they were bringing an ammonia engine to the market. This is an engine that they claim will destroy EVs and take the lead. However, there is so much that we can learn about this new engine that makes us just interested. But at the end of it all, the main question is: is this ammonia engine really capable of ending EVs? Let’s find out!
I work with Anhydrous Ammonia; it is not something you want on the road, around you, and definitely not in your garage. NH3 is highly corrosive and it always finds a way to leak out of stuff. Liquid NH3 must be kept below -28°F or in very thick pressurized stainless tanks and it increases in volume exponentially when it changes into a gas, which it can do with explosive results. There is a rule in the industry, never double block NH3 (seal NH3 in a pipe) for that reason. Once you end up in a cloud, you will really wish you weren't.
What would happen in an accident or car fire, how would the emergency services cope? What would happen if ammonia escaped into the environment?
Something else people forget is that the vast majority of both Hydrogen and NH3 is sourced from fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, and coke through steam reforming, so using hydrogen or NH3 fuels is only trading one fossil fuel for another. This also means it releases CO2. While a lot of plants capture, and purify some of that CO2 to sell (we also use a lot of it to form urea), it's still being released into the Atmosphere. As of now, no other commercial process can compete with steam reforming on price or energy input, including hydrolysis for hydrogen, so plain and simple companies won't use it and customers won't pay for it.
It should keep your engines clean
This is all fine and dandy but still the oil has got to be changed and there's a radiator and the engine is pretty much the same and there's going to be people out there buying EV'S for one thing to get AWAY from the COMBUSTION ENGINE ALL TOGETHER.
No more searching for a gas station to pee on long trips! thank you toyota 👍
កMMONIក love nh3
What happened to Toyota's water engine or hydrogen engine?
It seems to me that the legal rights for Tesla to introduce FSD is not being addressed. If the future of Tesla relies on FSD then its a very high risk strategy.
hydrogen for the win
Batteries are the most low energy density, heavy, toxic, power source there is for a vehicle. Only high sulfur coal to drive steam engines can be worse. That is the way most elecicity is generated, anyway. The long coal trains that come into the electric plant in the region I live are so king that they have to be divided up and out into a holding rail yard. Electric cars do nothing for the environment except pollute it worse than petrol, diesel, propane, methane, engines. The propane engines, at work, are far cleaner than any electric junk and they run for decades, something a battery car can never do on a stupid battery.
More shite from Toyota.