By any goal measure, and even when you help his insurance policies, Donald Trump isn’t match to be president. He’s too outdated, his thoughts is gone, he’s scared to debate, he’s dodging interviews, and nothing he says makes any sense.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 citing hydrogen vehicles exploding, usually declaring {that a} member of the viewers who can be unrecognizable after the explosion.
Now, earlier than we get too far, hydrogen fuel-cell automobiles aren’t the Hindenburg, and automakers design them with crash security in thoughts. It’s fully attainable a hydrogen automobile has exploded someplace sooner or later, however the one instance I might discover was a latest story in regards to the Ukrainian army deliberately turning the gasoline cell from a Toyota Mirai right into a bomb to kill Russian invaders hellbent on war-criming their method by means of the nation. It isn’t a difficulty within the U.S. and gained’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 gasoline in Delaware and a hydrogen fueling station explosion in Norway.
Like several 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 expertise. Even when you can deliver your self to forgive that blatant Isaac de Rivaz erasure, what in regards to the rather 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 automobiles and can actually solely ever work for industrial trucking.
If the above video had simply been a one-off occasion, that might have been one factor. As a substitute, Trump has continued to journey across the nation speaking in regards to the risks of hydrogen vehicles. I used to be capable of finding a minimum of 5 extra situations the place he repeated almost similar claims, proper right down to telling the viewers they’ll be unrecognizable in the event that they’re ever in a hydrogen-powered automobile when it explodes. They’re additionally all so related that there actually isn’t a lot of a degree 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 wager, it most likely as a result of Tesla CEO Elon Musk appointed himself Brown-Noser-in-Chief, and so they don’t need to do something to danger slicing off the circulation of these Elon Bucks. In a number of of the clips, you possibly can see him begin to trash EVs, solely to pivot to how dangerous 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 will’t make him cease? Odds are, nobody will ever know till some entry journalist writes one other guide.
Lastly, earlier than the White Knights of Hydrogen present up in pressure to yell at me for dismissing the expertise of the longer term, check out how refueling a Hyundai Nexo went for our associates on the Smoking Tire. If it nonetheless solely form of barely works in LA, how does anybody critically suppose we’ll be capable of roll this out nationally? Yeah, not occurring.
