<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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豐田汽車

<p>加利福尼亞州對豐田的訴訟突顯了早期採用氫動力 Mirai 車型的消費者的失望，他們感到在加氫基礎設施方面受到誤導。儘管如此，氫作為清潔能源的潛力仍然顯著，能夠提供能源獨立性，並在各個領域展現出多樣性。豐田在氫技術方面依然處於領先地位，生產了多個版本的 Mirai 和燃料電池卡車，同時還在探索改裝版卡羅拉的氫賽車</p>

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

- 加州一項 57 億美元的訴訟揭示了惹惱樂觀客户的風險。  
- 豐田 Mirai 的早期用户指責公司誤導其關於加氫網絡的可用性。  
- 氫能的吸引力在於其可再生性和高能量密度，豐田在氫汽車領域處於領先地位。

你想要一輛氫燃料汽車。只是你還沒有意識到這一點