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9. Toyota fires bullets into hydrogen fuel tanks

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Thu Apr 17, 2014, 07:29 PM

Apr 2014

Toyota fires bullets into hydrogen fuel tanks, shoots down EV supporters

With some industry members and analysts questioning both the viability and durability of hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles, Toyota executive Bob Carter, speaking at the Automotive News World Congress this week, says the Japanese automaker went all Clint Eastwood on the fuel tanks of a fuel-cell prototype. Carter says that bullets from a small-caliber gun bounced off the carbon-fiber tanks, and that .50-caliber bullets barely made dents...

"Personally, I don't care what Elon (Musk), Carlos (Ghosn) or Jonathan (Browning) say about fuel cells. If they want to 'plug in and tune out' other technologies, that's fine."
http://green.autoblog.com/2014/01/16/toyota-fires-bullets-hydrogen-fuel-tanks-shoots-ev-supporter/

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