<div id="readability-page-1"><div><p>A US$5.7 billion California lawsuit has much to teach us about about the perils of annoying your most optimistic customers. Drivers of the Toyota Mirai paid premium prices for a futuristic car whose fuel cells convert hydrogen into electricity and pure water. These early adopters now accuse Toyota of misleading them about the availability of a refuelling network. It’s easy to understand their ire: what good is a hydrogen car if you can’t buy hydrogen?</p><p>It’s just as easy to understand hydrogen’s appeal. You can make it from water using renewable electricity, it doesn’t contain carbon, and it stores energy far more densely than batteries – 3 kg contain around 100 kilowatt-hours, the same as the biggest electric car batteries. It could power everything from cars and container ships to factories and the electric grid itself, turning intermittent wind and solar into round-the-clock energy. The ability to make it anywhere also promises a measure of energy independence in a world at the mercy of oil and gas flows.</p><p>If there is a carmaker that leads the hydrogen pack, it’s Toyota. It has already produced two generations of the Mirai (Japanese for “future”). The company sells fuel-cell trucks in Australia. BMW’s iX5 runs on Toyota’s fuel cells. In December, Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda is going endurance racing in a Corolla converted to burn pure hydrogen. He is literally driving the change he wants to see.</p></div></div>

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<p>加利福尼亚州对丰田的诉讼突显了早期采用氢动力 Mirai 车型的消费者的失望，他们感到在加氢基础设施方面受到误导。尽管如此，氢作为清洁能源的潜力仍然显著，能够提供能源独立性，并在各个领域展现出多样性。丰田在氢技术方面依然处于领先地位，生产了多个版本的 Mirai 和燃料电池卡车，同时还在探索改装版卡罗拉的氢赛车</p>

You want a hydrogen car. You just don’t know it yet

- 加州一项 57 亿美元的诉讼揭示了惹恼乐观客户的风险。  
- 丰田 Mirai 的早期用户指责公司误导其关于加氢网络的可用性。  
- 氢能的吸引力在于其可再生性和高能量密度，丰田在氢汽车领域处于领先地位。

你想要一辆氢燃料汽车。只是你还没有意识到这一点