The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle has hardly been an international sales success, thanks to poor hydrogen infrastructure, expense, and polarizing design, but it proved successful to Ukrainian forces which scavenged parts from the hydrogen car to create the world’s smallest hydrogen bomb.
  • Hazzia@infosec.pubEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    Toyota should add “can become a mini-nuke” to their sales pitch. I’m sure they’ll get at least half of NCD with that alone.

    • Eranziel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      It was not a nuclear explosion, that would be insane. Pure hydrogen is highly explosive, which is why it’s suitable for a combustion vehicle like the Mirai.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        Mirai isn’t a combustion vehicle, it has a fuel cell that generates electricity via a chemical reaction.

        • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          That is true in the case of the mirai, but hydrogen can also be used in combustion engines, though at a much lower efficiency.

      • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        At first I thought it was NCD memery, e.g. “Ukrainian soldiers cobble together a nuke from a car they find lying around” so imagine my surprise when I see it’s a real headline. Even though “hydrogen bomb” is technically correct, it certainly made me do a double take. I wonder if that choice of words was intentional.

        • Danquebec@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          First, I didn’t see that it was coming from NCD, and I thought it was a real news. I was really confused.

          Then, I realized how much of a fool I was when I saw it was from NCD.

          But then I saw it was actually in the URL of the linked article and I was CONFUSED AGAIN.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      27·
      3 months ago

      Where the FUCK did they find a Toyota Mirai sitting around?? One of the newest cars that literally only exists on 1 state in the US… is sitting around in Ukraine?? Do they even have hydrogen infrastructure or is this just a way to skirt Geneva Convention?

      Man, what a top quality dumbass. Those vehicles are practically worthless, due to having a running cost multiple times that of an F-150, if you can find the fuel.

      And why would the Geneva convention have anything to say about this?