The Paris Olympics chose to use 500 hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai cars to ferry athletes around and show off the green credentials of the games. But in an unprecedented move, a coalition of 120 scientists in the U.S. and U.K. have written a letter objecting to the Mirai’s use and called for battery-electric vehicles to be employed instead.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars like the Mirai fulfill the sustainability goal of having zero CO2 tailpipe emissions, and they can be refueled in minutes. So, what exactly is the problem?
