Comment by jacquesm

What's up with Toyota? They had a head start on everybody for a long time with their hybrids and now it's one weird scheme after another. It reminds me of Sony and the VCR wars (or the minidisc, for that matter). I really don't get it, they seem to be completely willing to cede the market, every other brand can't seem to retool fast enough to get to zero emissions line-ups as soon as they can design them and here is Toyota going against the flow with not just one but two exotic designs for which there is at present absolutely no infrastructure and no viable pathway to get there based on a single manufacturer's blessing, as well as the requirement to now keep five lines of motive power in play (gasoline, hybrid, electric, hydrogen and now ammonia). The only reason Tesla got to where it is today is because we already had a power grid. Absent a distribution network and a viable means of large scale production this just isn't going to happen. Besides the safety issues. If you think hydrogen is bad wait until you see what your average ammonia leak looks like. HazMat suits won't be optional.