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The Unfortunate Truth About Toyota's Hydrogen V8 Engine

Engineering Explained examines Toyota's hydrogen-burning V8 engine built with Yamaha and explains the practical problems of hydrogen combustion vehicles. It covers efficiency, storage and distribution issues.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN uses it as the go-to explanation of why hydrogen internal combustion engines do not make sense.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Engineering Explained
Topic
hydrogen combustion engines
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
9
Recommendation years in dataset
2022–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • The YouTube channel Engineering Explained has an excellent video regarding why hydrogen is not a practical replacement for gasoline/petrol/diesel in a traditional internal combustion engine: [VIDEO]

    drewg123 on Hacker News · 2023-10
    In Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification

  • YouTube's Engineering Explained channel took a close look at the hydrogen engine Toyota recently unveiled and in doing so explained a lot of problems you can expect with hydrogen engines - including distribution and storage issues. Watch here: [VIDEO]

    taylodl on Hacker News · 2022-11
    In The New Hydrogen Car That Travels 2k Km with a Single Tank

  • WRT hydrogen engines: This video explains why using hydrogen to power an internal combustion engine doesn't make sense: [VIDEO] Lots of more informative responses in this thread than I can explain; just remember that a lot of people are promoting "hydrogen" in situations where it …

    gwbas1c on Hacker News · 2022-11
    In Ask HN: How innovative is the hydrogen industry?

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