Toyota CEO defends combustion engines - "The enemy is carbon"

[Bradley Prior]

Toyota CEO defends combustion engines - "The enemy is carbon"

“The enemy is carbon, not internal combustion engines,” Toyoda said at a briefing Saturday. “We need diverse solutions, that’s the path toward challenging carbon neutrality.” [Bloomberg]

 

[Arthur]

Only half a hip. He's right in saying the ICE is not the enemy. He's wrong to say it's carbon. Carbon is good.

 

[Unreal]

Only half a hip. He's right in saying the ICE is not the enemy. He's wrong to say it's carbon. Carbon is good.

Please elaborate

 

[Gordon_R]

Having options sounds good, but IMO hydrogen is a niche market. Internal combustion engines are rather inefficient for short distances, and hydrogen is too bulky for long range journeys. Also you can't swap fuels easily, so until the infrastructure is in place, it's a chicken and egg dilemma.

 

[rietrot]

This is an interesting PR exercise.

Obviously most of the world still need internal combustion engines and don't have the support infrastructure for anything else.

But with the greenie politics the Politically correct thing to say is that your company is working on EVs and plan to phase out petrol and diesel engines in 2025, and then you just push that date out every few years.

This way, saying something so obvious (there's another thread aswell) just makes him a target because he is interrupting the doomsday propaganda.

 

[Arthur]

Please elaborate

Sorry, not now in this thread as that'd be a deflecting fork. Suggest you read up on basic chemistry. Lots of resources on the net. I don't necessarily endorse all below, just a random sample of views that aren't knee-jerk anti-carbon.

An ECOMODERNIST MANIFESTO

AN ECOMODERNIST MANIFESTO

www.ecomodernism.org

https://carbonisgood.blogspot.com/?m=0

 

[Sapphiron]

Sorry, not now in this thread as that'd be a deflecting fork. Suggest you read up on basic chemistry. Lots of resources on the net. I don't necessarily endorse all below, just a random sample of views that aren't knee-jerk anti-carbon.

An ECOMODERNIST MANIFESTO

AN ECOMODERNIST MANIFESTO

www.ecomodernism.org

https://carbonisgood.blogspot.com/?m=0

Just because something is catastrophically disruptive to the world overall, does not mean that some small segments do not benefit. also, in that testing, did they also control for the temperature increase and reduced/increased rainfall.

The rate of change is the problem in itself.

 

[ChrisThomas]

Please elaborate

Carbon is ubiquitous - carbon dioxide however is harmful

 

[w1z4rd]

Im sure there will always be a need for combustible engines but there is also a strong need for cheaper EVs.