By any goal measure, and even when you assist his insurance policies, Donald Trump isn’t match to be president. He’s too previous, his thoughts is gone, he’s scared to debate, he’s dodging interviews, and nothing he says makes any sense. Take, for instance, his present obsession with hydrogen vehicles blowing up his viewers. No, I don’t imply one thing insane that he mentioned as soon as. Trump retains mentioning hydrogen vehicles exploding, usually stating {that a} member of the viewers who could be unrecognizable after the explosion.
Now, earlier than we get too far, hydrogen fuel-cell autos aren’t the Hindenburg, and automakers design them with crash security in thoughts. It’s completely doable a hydrogen automotive has exploded someplace in some unspecified time in the future, however the one instance I might discover was a latest story in regards to the Ukrainian army deliberately turning the gas cell from a Toyota Mirai right into a bomb to kill Russian invaders hellbent on war-criming their method by the nation. It isn’t a problem within the U.S. and received’t be until MAGA crazies borrow a web page out of Ukraine’s playbook.
Precise examples of hydrogen explosions seem like restricted to a truck transporting hydrogen gas in Delaware and a hydrogen fueling station explosion in Norway.
Like all stump speech, Trump repeats a number of of the identical traces each time he goes off on his anti-hydrogen rants. Amongst different nonsensical claims, he repeatedly calls hydrogen a brand new know-how. Even when you can convey your self to forgive that blatant Isaac de Rivaz erasure, what in regards to the way more latest GM Electrovan? Toyota’s work with the FCHV? Honda and the FCX? The Toyota Mirai? Hyundai’s Nexo? None of those are new and, extra importantly, none of them have really caught on. As a result of it’s a rubbish thought for passenger autos and can actually solely ever work for business trucking.
If the above video had simply been a one-off occasion, that might have been one factor. As an alternative, Trump has continued to journey across the nation speaking in regards to the risks of hydrogen vehicles. I used to be capable of finding not less than 5 extra situations the place he repeated almost equivalent claims, proper all the way down to telling the viewers they’ll be unrecognizable in the event that they’re ever in a hydrogen-powered automotive when it explodes. They’re additionally all so related that there actually isn’t a lot of some extent in embedding all of them.
Why precisely Trump has determined to make hydrogen fuel-cells enemy primary, proper up there with different Individuals who disagree with him, nobody can say for certain. If I needed to guess, it in all probability as a result of Tesla CEO Elon Musk appointed himself Brown-Noser-in-Chief, and so they don’t need to do something to threat chopping off the move of these Elon Bucks. In a number of of the clips, you’ll be able to see him begin to trash EVs, solely to pivot to how unhealthy hydrogen is. Was it one thing Musk mentioned? Was it one thing a staffer put in entrance of Trump to distract him from EVs, and now they’ll’t make him cease? Odds are, nobody will ever know till some entry journalist writes one other e-book.
Lastly, earlier than the White Knights of Hydrogen present up in pressure to yell at me for dismissing the know-how of the long run, check out how refueling a Hyundai Nexo went for our mates on the Smoking Tire. If it nonetheless solely kind of barely works in LA, how does anybody critically suppose we’ll be capable to roll this out nationally? Yeah, not taking place.
