@Racing Discipline les enfants

Incorrect. The car is powered by the energy from a chemical reaction. Water is a waste product, not a source of energy.

If only the creation of the battery’s were quite so environmentally friendly... 🤔

Uh...no? The water is a byproduct AFTER the reaction and energy production. It's not powered BY the water... Of all the people that I though know about cars...

yea and I've got a carbon monoxide powered vw golf.

It emits steam, not liquid water.

@@Weerknuffelbeer lol, I know this. My comment may have been one of sarcasm. There is always someone that has to “correct” someone else. Jokes on you buddy ;)

And if it's cold enough at Le Mans in June, as you may expect high temperature variability due to climate change, you will get water - so your comment is valid even w/o the sarcasm :)

@@tristandoran601 Well, considering the level of intelligence of the average social media commenter you never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@1982valeriu climate change lol

Nobody actually listened to the guy talk I guess

Electrically induce into water creates hydrogen a clean fuel. The energy source of the future, better that electric vehicles that have batteries that wear out in time and need replacement.

@The Joker 😂😂😂

Don't worry, Toyota will use hydrogen engine

Running on hydrogen and oxygen. Water is a byproduct that releases from the exhaust

Don’t worry the rest of us got it.

@@che17grr Okay, Buzz Killington.

This is also electric.

@@ErikGPL but they are developing a fuel version. Which is replacing fossile fuel instead of Electric.

@@ErikGPL the hydrogen engine charges the battery

@@yodaddamilkman8422 Which powers the electric engine...

@@ErikGPL yes

That's exactly why I really hope Toyota doesn't stop trying with their hydrogen combustion powered race cars so that we can have sustainable race cars that still have that roaring sound that send shivers down your spine as they zoom past you.

Shhhhhh.....it's "green".

Don't question it. Just believe 😂

Without sound it ain't worth watching

I heared Hidrogen cars can drive without those Unlike regular eletric cars that have problems with rare metals

@@superninja252 You heard wrong. Only a hydrogen combustion engine can work without a catalyst, but they're highly inefficient. The vast majority of hydrogen cars (including those referenced in this vid) use a fuel cell which requires a catalyst to combine the H2 with O2, and the only ones that provide suitable efficiency and longevity utilize Platinum Group Metals which are extremely rare and expensive.

You will get over the sound aspect of those dirty out dated power trains.

To produce hydrogen at a large scale you need methane that create pollution too

It also still needs electric motors. They come with a HUGE environmental cost as well.

Jay Leno comes to mind.

There is no combustion, no sound.

Was his name Musk???...

Oh, the conspiracy of THEM?

No

A swappable battery isn’t really that feesible. 99% of electric cars now adays have the batteries as part of the chassis. Also the IDR would make at max 2-3 laps of LeMans before needing to pit. The hydrogen car however should be able to race for 3 hours at a time. So the pit stop time avg would be less on the hydrogen car

You don't have to make oxygen, its normal air, the membrane filters the oxygen molecules from that. The environmental footprint for hydrogen isn't that great at the moment since its extracted by methane reforming. But currently infrastructures are being set in place to do it with non renewable sources. And also improve efficiency because extracting hydrogen, storing it and then making water again takes energy at every step.

@@nite3747 I know these things but it all has an environmental/carbon footprint. Water coming out of the tailpipe is very mis-leading. Hydrogen is in liquid form at very high pressure. Energy is required to get it into this state. With our vast current infrastructure designed around liquid fuel, some form of liquid un-pressurized syn-fuel makes more sense and we haven't even discussed the drive motors, inverter drives, the fuel cell itself and all the other crap this car was packed to the gills with!

Hydrogen requires energy to be made, and stored. It takes massive amounts of electricity, which is why it will never make sense.

@@nite3747 yes, this video is very misleading and avoids all the issues of hydrogen which was tried and failed in Japan. Even Japanese industry is pivoting back to batteries.

Fuel cells have been advanced to handle penetration from a 50cal bullet. They are safer than battery cars to be honest

The Hindenburg was a balloon filled with Hydrogen. Besides, in 85 years of development, fuel cell technology has improved in robustness.

@@raininglemons9435 same is true of batteries, which is why Formula E has had major crashes and no fires. The danger of hydrogen is in the fuelling under high pressure and low temp.

I suppose it's just distilled water, so probably it is.

" Over 600PS from its hydrogen fuel cell technology and the only waste product is water clean enough to drink!"

Trace metals and lubricants

Just that you know... too pure water is also dangerous for humans... if you drink it too much it will flush out/imbalance the electrolytes and minerals in your body... I think it became unhealthy after several liters of distilled water though so...

The future is soulless. I'll stick with the vintage racing, thanks.

@@K1lostream The future is faster, that's what racing is about.

As of 2019, 98% of hydrogen is produced by steam methane reforming... not electrolysis. If you are going to comment on a topic, at least take the trouble to minimally educate yourself. Solar and wind will NEVER produce enough energy to make enough hydrogen by electrolysis to meet demand. Nuclear is the only realistic route with current and foreseeable technology.

KrocketOnBoost I don't prefer vintage racing because I think it's faster!

I hope no... Thermic h2o engine are a lot more exciting and less polluting than a boring full electric engine.

There are no crashes in the future. A.I. will prevent it and drivers will be operating their machines safely through VR. Racing is going to be great. 🤠🥴

Safety cell is required

@@AlienLivesMatter safety shmafety. Today's safety standards make last decades look unsafe, so really, safety is just waiting for some talented driver to test the limit. I'm betting the total amount of hydrogen used is calculated out to be as "safe" as a full tank petrol fuel involved explosion..or something relatively close. I'm really hoping that the Toyota Mirai isn't a H-bomb on wheels; and that some engineers calculated this stuff out.

I asked exactly the same question in a comment before I read yours. Wondering if this can produce a mini Hindenburg - probably not an explosion but a damn big fire

Oui oh ça va hein on fait ce qu'on peut mdr

If it's produced in a way that is (somewhat) environmentally friendly, hydrogen is produced via the electrolysis of water, so it's not like you're getting more water out of the whole process.

It's not easy to store and transport hydrogen, it's a very volatile gas. Production cars will need refueling stations with hydrogen to fill up the fuel cells, current electric cars battery can simply take electricity

There are Hydrogen-powered production cars. Look up Toyota Mirai and Honda FCX Clarity.

Yep and a road going version as well which it was made 10 years ago

I thought F1 was going the synthetic fuel route. Would hydrogen be considered a synthetic fuel?

@@chandler9716 bio fuel and oil is fuel made out of plants. Synthetic is a mix between plants and crude I think

@@jackarmstrong7285 One type of synthetic fuel though from what I read is in development by Porsche which uses renewable forms of electricity such as wind and solar to split the hydrogen from the water by electrolysis, then combined with the atmospheric CO2 to form Methanol.

@@chandler9716 Synthetic fuel is just more greenwashing, it takes more energy to make the fuel than we get back.

@@truantray But if that energy is nuclear...

yeah, people dont even know the amount of strip mining that goes on to get the metals that go into the batteries.

The same thing I say to all oil industry bots, technology is improving.

Hydrogen fuel cell cars still have fairly large batteries.

Valid question, but you need huge amounts of energy to break the water molecule into separate hydrogen and oxygen atoms, way more than any ICE could supply in a practical manner

@@1982valeriu true electrolysis is a very high energy consuming process

I hope you drive better than you think.

It was Toyota, I think. I think they did a 24 hour test on hydrogen power corolla.

@@harryespiloy4333 with an engine too.

Mazda has/had a few RX-8s powered with hydrogen. Toyota has it's Hydrogen powered EV, the Mirai.

How many Hydrogen stations are near you? Even fuel cell buses never went beyond pilot projects. Making and storing Hydrogen is not cheap.

Because comparing with petrol isn't the main goal, its about R&D. Endurance makes categories so anyone who wants to participate can R&D in that category and have better benchmarks comparing to its relevant competitors.

Le Mans also has an "overall winner," so it can still be a head to head but also ensures that at the end of the day the best electric/hydrogen car still gets recognition.

Nope. Because these cars can only hold a fraction of energy of ICE cars.

Takes a lot of energy to split a decent amount of hydrogen from water (via electrolysis) so it's not really practical to do it onboard the car.

Were did you source the batteries 🤔

Tire rubber is on the track and rubber is a natural product. Brakes break down into minerals that already exist on the racing surface. In terms of pollution you’ll create more by farting than you will from tires and brakes over 24hrs

Yeah, kinda odd approach on the wear-down of these. You'd be better to worry about the manufacturing of tires and brakes, not the use of them.

@@jackarmstrong7285 plastic pollution in tires

@@AceBlake Ive never heard of Hydrogen being a byproduct of fission reactors, i mean you could use the power generated to produce hydrogen through electrolysis, but thats different

Hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements in the universe so it does not need mass production it just needs to be siphoned out of the air like processing natural gas.

@@Dr.Mcstaby Ok, cool. why dont you figure out how to "siphon" out pure hydrogen from the "universe". every scientist on earth is eagerly awaiting this world-changing technology. BTW our atmosphere doesnt have any significant levels of free Hydrogen. You have no idea what you are talking about

I assume Island would be a superpower of producing "eco"-hydrogen with all the geothermo-power they've harnessed...

@@AceBlake wut? Nice try Dr. Science.

hint: fossil fuels

Magic fairies.

The BIG issue with hydrogen is the very poor efficiency. Basically hydrogen doesn't exist by itself so you need to extract it from gas like methane (CH4) which is not 'green' or from the air by electrolysis, then compress it at 700 Atmosphere (10,000 PSI), and then use a fuell cell stack to get electricty and water. And then you still need batteries to store the electricity produced. So you get only 25% of usable energy from the energy used to produce it. In the case of batteries, you store directly the electricity produced from solar panels, so you get mostly 95% of usable energy from the energy needed to produced it from the sun. For a race like Le Mans you could use swapable batteries, which could be interesting to compare to the hydrogen solution. For an electric car you just need a battery and an electric motor, while for an hydrogen car, you also need tanks to store the high pressure hydrogen and fuel cells stack to generate electricity and batteries to store it.

@@nihongobenkyoshimasu3190 Either you cannot completely dismiss how vast environmental hazard is the mass-production of battery cells...

@@ssc00p Every car is a vast environmental hazard. Where do you think metals in cars come from? Do F150s grow in fields? How much mining does a single platinum catalytic converter take? How much mining and energy does a single liter of petrol take? You can't make arguments with blinders on. Think.

@@truantray 😁😁😂