The Japanese car companies put all their eggs in the hydrogen basket, despite their early head start in EV with the Toyota Prius and such, and as hydrogen looks to be more and more of a dead end due to transportation and safety concerns, of course they are going to be sandbagging EV adoption to buy time and catch up.

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Gotta love the Japanese culture of holding onto tradition until you can't anymore.

Gotta remember that Japan was still mostly feudal up until the World Wars. Pretty recent in human history.

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

China being a massive producer of EVs is also a large part of it. Japan and China have a long hatred of one another, but will sometimes set aside differences for simple things.

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Care to share some sources regarding hytrogen safety?

[–] Kajika@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NEDO is a big public institution for renewable energy research. The budget is ~500M$ a year and they bet a lot in hydrogen : https://www.nedo.go.jp/english/index.html (https://www.nedo.go.jp/english/activities/activities_ZZJP_100096.html)

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That isn't what I asked for but thanks. Their comment implied hydrogen is unsafe and I asked sourced for that, because I couldn't find any.