Toyota’s NEW ENGINE Will Destroy The Entire EV INDUSTRY

By 2030, 70% of vehicles in the country will be EVs, right? Because EVs are environmentally friendly.

 According to the research of Naveen Jin University, how Before coming on the road, an EV has already emitted 1368 kilograms of carbon dioxide due to which 36,000 people have lost their lives every year, that is, where all the countries are considering EVs as green energy, this is what triggers the greenhouse effect in the EV.

If so, what will be the solution? To replace the brand-new engine and industry, Toyota has launched an engine that will run completely on hydrogen and will release water vapor into the atmosphere at the expense of carbon dioxide. You can also drink them.

If I talk about its efficiency,  it will be 2 times more efficient than the engine and motor and in its prototype stitch itself, it has replaced Tesla’s highest-selling model with the same engine. You can’t believe it, right,

The comparison is something like this, Toyota’s hydrogen engine does 650 kilometers in one refill and it takes only 5 minutes to refill whereas the Tesla Model Will gives a mileage of only 500 kilometers on a single charge when it is charged for the whole day, till now everything is wonderful.

Even though everyone is saying that Toyota has made it keeping the environment in mind, the truth is that Toyota was forced to make it.  It happened because the government had banned the normal cars of Toyota. 

Impact on Toyota’s Sales and Reputation

The thing is that from 2005 to 2015, Toyota was selling its cars at great success. Toyota is the largest seller of vehicles. If you know, then because of the carelessness of their workers.

They kept selling the vehicles in the market for 10 years without making any improvement in the tailpipes of his vehicles, then as soon as this issue came to his notice to the US Environment Protection Agency EPA, he asked for a detailed investigation report from Toyota regarding the issue, which Toyota could not able to provide.

As a result, the government charged him with violating the Clean and Act and also gave him a demand to pay a fine of 180 million dollars for cheating in carbon emission matters.

Toyota’s situation had become such that if they had not paid the fine, their vehicles would be banned, and if they had paid the fine, they would have suffered a heavy monetary loss the same thing happened, their sales visibly decreased in the next two years.

The situation even worsened s in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and every automobile company started taking the environment seriously despite all this, Toyota’s major focus was still on normal combustion engines, so they were thinking of some innovation and Its sales again fell by 20% which created alarm.

After this, he finally shifted his focus towards making hydrogen engines with innovation and durability. For this purpose, he specifically collaborated with Yamaha in the Beyond Zero campaign. Its motive is zero carbon Emission: A hydrogen combustion engine was made under it, but you know what? ​​Making an engine by converting the hydrogen element into fuel was not Toyota’s IDEA.

Evolution of Hydrogen Engine Technology

If we take a look at the history of the origin of this concept, in fact, in the 18th century, a Swiss Army engineer Francois Isisek de Re Vyas was firing a cannon,  when he got an idea why not power the engine’s piston with an explosive material instead of a bomb, so he immediately designed a primitive-looking engine which could be run in a small balloon. 

It was ignited by filling hydrogen gas, but there was a problem with it, it had to be started by giving manual ignition every time, in which it covered only a distance of 6 meters.

Now because it was impractical, Francois scrapped it but in 1860  By making some improvements in the engine, a Belgian engineer Etiene Lenoir made the first hydrogen car, the hippomobile running on inline electrolysis. Now electricity is required for electrolysis which comes from internal fossil fuels.

Hence everyone shifted to convenient fossil fuels, and due to this two types of  Engines running on fossil fuel became independent, diesel and petrol engines became independent, due to which the concept of a hydrogen engine remained just a theory till 1966 because this was the year when General Motor Company thought of using rocket fuel technology in normal cars and  Then, taking inspiration from the cryogenic hydrogen tank of the Apollo mission. h

He created the first hydrogen fuel cell by the name of Electrovan. But the most unfortunate part is that this vehicle was no less than a walking hydrogen bomb because it had cylinders of hydrogen and oxygen gases and so on. Hydrogen + Oxygen = Deadly Combination because both are inflammable gases let’s assume that they had the solution, but still a rocket scientist was necessary to run it. Because just looks like this. 

Its dashboard is like a rocket controller. And to top it all up, if you look at its design the space of the engine is more than the car, so even though it looks like 6 seats, only two people could sit in it, impractical right?  And that’s why this one never came into the commercial market but before General Motors could solve all these problems, a big accident happened which stopped its production.

Hydrogen Safety: Past Problems, Modern Solutions

In fact, during the testing of the Electrovan, its hydrogen tank got blasted and The pieces of the vehicle flew half a kilometer away, the world understood very well how dangerous this technology was, but friends, this is a matter of history, right now the technology has become modern, there are some tricks of the day that we will figure it out. Is Toyota thinking the same right now,

what is the reason Toyota is bringing this dangerous technology back into the market? 

What solution has Toyota come up with, so that these vehicles and engines are blast-proof? Well To tackle these problems, Toyota started solving all the problems he had one by one. Started first with safety, so, first of all, he solved the problem of hydrogen. The hydrogen tanks in Electrovan are made of aluminum and stainless steel.  They used to leak because their tensile strength was low, so to tackle this problem, Toyota introduced a material that has 10 years of strength and is also lightweight and that material was carbon fiber While the earlier tanks could generate 3000 psi pressure, these tanks can easily generate 10000 psi pressure. 

Challenges with Conventional Fuel Cell Technology

By fitting these tanks, Toyota was the first to sell commercial hydrogen fuel and launch the Toyota Mirai in 2014, but this model is quite low. 

Despite being popular, its cells were not that satisfactory, the reason for this was the efficiency of the fuel cell. So basically, as we know, fuel cells produce electricity through electrolysis, but the problem with this is that the energy comes from two different conversion processes. first electric to chemical energy which is called electrolysis and second chemical the electrical energy is reversed electrolysis due to the engine in dual-energy conversion, Toyota Mirai provided only ₹ 25 to 30% efficiency

 while EVs provided 79 to 90% efficiency. and then the anode and cathode used for electrolysis are sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide which are

Damaged and corrode due to electrolytes. Due to all this, the self-life of the cell is also reduced but this unique method of Toyota changed all the negatives of fuel cells into positives. This time Toyota thought of starting from the basics again.

Toyota thought We run our normal combustion engine only with hydrogen gas without electrolysis and I tell you it was a master stroke.  In an EV car, the process of electrolysis is followed; in a car fuel cell, in normal fuel cars, energy is generated into four parts of the engine.

First, the fuel is mixed in a tank, second, a piston compresses it upwards and third, there is a spark.  The plug provides ignition and after the fourth combustion, the exhaust from the fuel is released, so their master strategy was that they started compressing the normal engine by pumping more hydrogen and following the rest of the process like a normal engine. 

It is a master strategy not because this process is very novel but because this idea of ​​using hydrogen gas in a normal engine setup, this very basic sounding idea, had not been properly executed before by anyone.

Its biggest feature is that where the rest of the Indians provide 20% efficiency, whereas the H2 engine provides around 40 to 50% efficiency. Now you must be asking the question in your mind how is its efficiency determined? 

How Toyota Overcomes Hydrogen Transportation Challenges

Diesel and petrol are saved by residue after combustion. The rest of the fuels are not able to combust completely and leave a residue that contributes to wastage. On the other hand, due to the maximum energy density of hydrogen, it gets completely formed and generates more energy than normal fuel. Let us give this as an example. 

Let us understand that if 5 liters of diesel generates 45 megajoules of the energy then 5 liters of h2 will generate 120 megajoules of energy.

Now I know, after hearing this you must be thinking that this is a very efficient process but till now there has been another big problem which has not been solved till now. That is hydrogen transportation.

The biggest example of the failure of this process is the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 in which an airship heavy with hydrogen landed over a New Jersey Town in the blink of an eye, unfortunately in this incident, 35 people died. nothing like this should happen in the future, that is why scientists have discovered a new idea.

They will produce hydrogen fuel directly at hydrogen fuel stations by using the sun. Initially, this process was done by solar panels which was quite expensive and less productive. Recently, according to IEEE Spectrum, the University of Japan has developed electric cells that will produce hydrogen as a result of photo electrolysis, which is essential for electricity in water electrolysis, which provides anode and cathode and hydrogen and oxygen generation respectively.

but the electrodes of photoelectric chemical cells will absorb different wavelengths of sunlight and separate hydrogen and oxygen.

In this process, the anode is made of titanium dioxide which is N type of photocatalyst, and the cathode is made of silicon carbide which is a P-type photocatalyst Now as soon as the radiation from the sun falls on this cell, the titanium dioxide present in it absorbs the UV rays because its electrons are excited at UV Energy and then these excited electrons are in the form of current from anode to cathode. They generate electricity by flowing and this method is going to be used to produce H2 at a hydrogen station. 

This engine is so efficient that it has the potential to replace the entire automobile industry in no time. such a novel technology. Despite this, Toyota is not trying to improve the hydrogen engine as well as the normal engines, and guess What, they are succeeding in this too, and now I have already made a detailed video on how they are doing it. You can see it, it is a very interesting technology and maybe in the future, we will see such cars.