Toyota Mirai Advice

Is it the magic solution to save driving as we know it? Or a fool’s errand that some of the biggest carmakers in the world are wasting billions on?

The fact there’s still no sign of flying cars outside my house, a couple of decades into the 21st century, is crushingly disappointing, but at least car boffins are sort of heading in that general direction by developing vehicles fuelled by the same stuff that powers rocket ships: hydrogen. (And, in a more Back to the Future II fashion, by effectively creating cars with their own power plants on b

If you’re the kind of person who still hasn’t gotten their head around DVD players, and you prefer your technological advancements to arrive at the speed of a tortoise rather than a hare, the concept of hydrogen cars may cause you to pine for the days when penny-farthings ruled the roads. 

As far as chemicals go, hydrogen is a lot like Adele’s music: inescapable by virtue of being absolutely everywhere. It’s the most abundant chemical in the universe, and can be produced as a gas or liquid, or made part of another material. Like a roll of gaffer tape, it’s the chemical that can pretty much do anything, and none of us can really live without it.