The owner of a Toyota Mirai, the most popular hydrogen car in the world, shared the truth about his experience so far.
He’s had ups and downs with the car.
While it is true that charging the car faster than you could with an EV is a huge advantage, the fact that stations are quite difficult to find makes owning a Mirai a bit complicated.
Not to mention the fact it is probably not as inexpensive as he hoped it would be.
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The experience with a Toyota Mirai
As it turns out, hydrogen cars aren’t always that cheap to run.
While it is true that charging a hydrogen fuel cell car takes a few minutes, the car can be more expensive to run than an EV.
The guy behind the Mirai Club YouTube channel explains it quite well in his video.
The biggest problem is that every animal is equal but some animals are more equal than others, it seems, because there are potentially huge discrepancies between stations.
This Toyota Mirai owner said charging the tank of the car can cost as much as $180.
He’s not alone, another Toyota Mirai/content creator had a very similar experience.
Paying $180 for a tank of hydrogen is a bit much, especially when we remember that A, this is for just 340 miles of range and B, that’s basically more than the monthly payment for the car.
Is owning a hydrogen car actually convenient?
With exceptions – the Alpine Alpenglow, for example – hydrogen cars are electric, but they use hydrogen fuel cells instead of batteries.
They charge faster than battery cars, but that’s just about the only true advantage they have at the moment.
There’s a common misconception when it comes to hydrogen cars, because people always say hydrogen is free and it’s the most abundant element in the universe.
True, but hydrogen needs to be stored and pressurized in order to be used as fuel, and that process is expensive and complex.
This explains why only four FCEVs are available as full-fledge production models: the Honda CR-V e:FCEV, the Hyundai Nexo, the BMW iX Hydrogen and the Toyota Mirai.
A user in the comment section of the YouTube video summed it up quite nicely and cleverly.
“So ‘the most abundant resource in the universe’ is more expensive than gasoline. Amazing,” this person wrote.
Well, they’re not wrong.
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