**The Future of Cars: Is Hydrogen the Answer?**

Hydrogen production is an exciting technology that could potentially be free if we use the sun and water as resources. However, the cost is currently high, but it's coming down slowly. Jerry the Science Guy thinks hydrogen could be a sustainable solution in the future, especially with efficient solar panels and cool engines.

**The Marai: A Hydrogen-Powered Car**

In recent days, I had the opportunity to drive the Toyota Marai, a hydrogen-powered car. However, people who actually paid money for this car are not happy. They're facing difficulties with refueling and finding that the car doesn't get as good of a range as advertised. Instead of 400 miles on a tank of hydrogen, many people are claiming to only be getting around 280 miles. This has led some owners to ask Toyota to buy back their vehicles and even consider suing the company for misleading them.

**The Cost of Owning a Marai**

The base price of the Marai is over $51,000, and the higher trim limited edition costs an eye-watering $67,000. For $67,000, you could get a nice M340i. Considering all the drawbacks, I would probably choose the Marai over this car. However, hydrogen gas is also very pricey, with a full tank costing around $200. And as we've discussed, the tank will likely not get you as far as a cheaper tank of gasoline.

**The Lack of Mass Adoption**

One of the reasons the cost of these cars is staying high is the lack of mass adoption. Toyota has described this as a "chicken or the egg" scenario. Consumers aren't buying the Marai because there are so few fueling stations available, and no one is making more fueling stations because so few people own these cars. It's a difficult problem that likely won't be solved without major government subsidies and development.

**Toyota's Incentives**

To combat this issue, Toyota has started offering insane purchase incentives. They've announced a $22,000 incentive for the base model and a $40,000 incentive for the limited edition. That's a 60% discount! They've also started giving new buyers a $155,000 fuel card, which is supposedly supposed to pay for 30,000 miles of range. However, we don't know if that actually covers 30,000 miles of range.

**The People Who Buy These Cars**

The people buying these hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't necessarily trying to find the cheapest car possible. They're trying to be on The Cutting Edge and among the first to adopt what could very well be the next big thing in the automotive industry. Perhaps one day green hydrogen will be easier and cheaper to produce, and hydrogen fuel stations will be more abundant.

**Is This the Future of Cars?**

I don't think this is quite the future because I don't know if we can have the infrastructure to support it in the short term. However, I had a lovely time driving the Marai, and Toyota has done a great job with this car. If the idea fails, it's not the car's fault – it's the lack of infrastructure's fault.

Thank you for watching! Make sure you hit that subscribe button and follow Zach Deal on social media. We'll see you next time!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the Toyota marai a hydrogen powered car that was supposed to be the future of the automobile but that didn't really happened with hydrogen fueld becoming more expensive and stations becoming more sparse customers are Furious they've even threatened to sue Toyota and hydrogen fuel car sales are down nearly 70% from last year how has it come to this well today we're going to find out how this car Works what it's like to live with one that is a Honker that's a Honker and decide if this is the car of the future or if it should be left in the past welcome to Donut all right so first let's talk about what this car even is while hydrogen powerered engines have been in the work since the 1800s it wasn't until 2014 that Toyota first unveiled the marai to the world marai literally means future in Japanese and it's easy to see why they called it that it's the first ever mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle this technology creates zero toxic emissions just pure clean water I mean it's a car that pees out of its butt and if you've never heard of this car before you're not alone in the US you can only buy the marai in California and in 2023 less than 3,000 were sold here one reason for that is because of the unique fueling technology which we'll get to in a bit but first let's talk Aesthetics all right so this is the Toyota marai right here out of the daylight it reminds me of a Toyota Camry a lot very Camry s this is Zachary deal you might have seen him in the cybertruck video he's going to be with me driving this car today let's get into the Aesthetics of this thing I've always thought this second gen marai looks like a deep water fish the high price of this car might have something to do with how many sensors are on this thing I've been driving this for the past couple days it's constantly telling me what's going on on the road I feel very safe in it in fact there's cameras and the fenders that warn you for cross traffic when you're pulling out of parking lots or onto streets and stuff it's pretty neat this thing is a jam-packed vehicle full of technology and it also has a really cool heads up display I like a heads up display I like that a lot to to introduce that new JBL speaker the new Tacomas but I like the heads up display better I just never really liked the big sort of functional Grill here I think with this car being black it wears it well cuz it all is just the same color but when you see the blue ones or white ones of these I'm just like it looks a little bad let's start working our way around here from the side pretty good large sedan I would say the wheels look very aerodynamic the spokes are quite large quite large yeah it looks like a very multi-spoke design I want to see what's under the hood of this thing because I'm super curious it's got a hood release just like every other Toyota pretty much wa oh I was actually expecting nothing but there actually is a fuel cell in the fuel cell vehicle I'll be honest the amount of orange wires in here is frankly alarming I mean you're not going to be working on this thing okay people say the same thing about EVS like how you going to work on them yourself I think that's a valid concern and when you add in extremely Hightech components like an actual fuel cell to the equation I'm not going to work on that I'm not going to do that I know what's going on all right let's take a look at the inside real quick on the inside not too crazy it has Apple carplay and everything it does pretty standard Toyota fair I think it's very comfortable it's not too crazy in your face I actually like it too and I was going to say there's not like a ton of buttons in here CL control you got down here buttons for the volume control which is kind of weird honestly pre style shifter if you've driven a Prius before you know how the shifter works it's not quite to Lexus levels I would say but it's pretty nice overall what do we think exterior keep it or leave it in the past leave it in the past I agree I think it needs a little restyling interior though pretty nice watching donut huh well well well what do we have here who hello wait till I show everyone this looks like I arrived just in time good thing you have today's sponsor surf shark it's the go-to VPN that encrypts your internet data keeping your sensitive information safe from hackers so you can look at all the hot cars you want no judgment here man stream your favorite show shop online and Bank securely no matter where you are with one account you can protect all your devices simultaneously All For One Price you can choose from thousands of servers worldwide for super fast speeds and access geol blocked content if you want to keep your online browsing and YouTube watching to yourself secure your privacy with surf shark try it out right now with a risk-free 30-day money back guarantee andent her promo code donut media for an extra 3 months free at surfshark dodeals donut media that's go donut media to get three extra months of protection for free so how the heck does this thing move around using hydrogen anyway well to answer that question I've got just the guy for the job Jerry the science dude science R the science dude so how do we get this puppy moving well to kick things off you'll need hydrogen and you're in luck because it just so happens to be the most abundant element in the universe also it's highly flammable but the marai doesn't ignite its fuel with a spark plug like an internal combustion engine would in fact it kind of does something a lot cooler it turns it into water the second generation marai like the one we have stores up to 5.6 kg that's 12.35 lbs of hydrogen between three carbon fiber fuel tanks at a super high pressure of 10,000 PSI when you press the accelerator hydrogen from the fuel tanks and oxygen from the intake are sent on a collision course straight to the fuel cell and it's there where the magic happens but what is a fuel cell well put very simply it's two plates separated by sort of filter air and hydrogen enter the fuel cell on opposite sides hydrogen impairs as H2 into one plate and air into the other inside the hydrogen plate is a platinum Catalyst and what that does is strip the electron from the hydrogen atom the protons are then drawn towards the oxygen in the air on the other side of the cell to get there they pass through something called a proton exchange membrane that's the filter we mentioned earlier which keeps the electrons out and this is the most important part because these electrons are what power the car as the hydrogen protons travel towards the oxygen the electrons they're left behind and are forced out and sent to the PCU the power control unit as electrical current which distributes power to the electric motor and drives the wheel if the PCU receives more energy than it needs it sends the excess to a battery so you can use it later very very cool so the electrons help power the car but what happened to those hydrogen atoms the hydrogen meets up with its buddy oxygen to form water and that's the stuff getting leaked out all over the LA streets oh that's real nice marai P I call it glug glug glug that's not water so how much power does this create exactly well not much less than one volt gets produced from one of these fuel cells but the marai doesn't just have one fuel cell oh no it actually has 320 separate fuel cell layers combined into something called a fuel cell stack and that gives us enough power to make 182 electric ponies this might sound really inefficient but it's actually way more efficient than an internal combustion engine the marai fru cell stack operates at over 60% efficiency compared to 30 to 40% of a modern ice is this the future well it could be but currently there's way more investment in edting technology which can operate up to 90% efficiency science rules chill chill science dude feel the power of hydrogen deal oh I will say on the street this is a great car well I am sitting passenger princess so I mean I don't really have like a good impression of it at first I can't really figure out what to do with my legs foot placement here is like OD maybe it's because maybe you can adjust your seat if you want that's no this is as far back andart as it goes yeah no kidding and I'm touching the ceiling if I the car itself actually does feel kind of big but the inside feels very small it feels pretty small I just think that's a byproduct of having a hydrogen tank right underneath us here and the fuel cell in front of us and more tanks behind us there's just not going to be a ton of space in here yeah it's the sound is weird oo I think that's fake but maybe not to describe it it sort of sounds like if you were being transported up into a UFO oh yes it's the same sound you would here yeah yeah yeah this is a great car in traffic even though it's pretty long it doesn't feel big probably cuz I'm low to the ground and I've got really great visibility out the front I can see everything that's going on right now so this is a 2023 limited trim marai it's got a modest 182 horsepower 300 fo lbs of torque not bad I can go 0 to 60 in 9.2 seconds now that we know how this thing Works let's get into the biggest difference between this and any other car on the road which is refueling first how far can you get on a tank of hydrogen uh Toyota says pretty freaking far but customers say otherwise Toyota claims that the marai gets between 357 and 42 M of range it's pretty good that's twice my car and it's much higher than your average EV which only gets about 250 M on one charge Mari sounds like a pretty sweet deal if that figure is actually true there are currently 48 fueling stations in the state of California mostly clustered in the San Fran and La areas now that might not sound too bad but to put that into perspective there are over 10,000 regular gas stations in the state all right so here's a little app that shows all the hydrogen stations in SoCal we are located in Englewood California now the nearest one to us is right near LAX but you can see the icon there is red it's got only oh it's closed doesn't have any fuel just closed so uh that's not going to work what about this one over here in Marina del re it's offline and only has 5 kg of fuel available at their facility not very convenient you'll see similar to these other stations that are close to us this guy right here it's limited 2 kg and not only are there not very many hydrogen stations to choose from but many of them are broken or could be out of hydrogen on any given day and what's worse is that you could drive a long way to get to a station that the app says is working wasting a good amount of your precious fuel in the process and then it could be closed anyway or there might be a massive line or the guy who got there just before you had the pump freeze to his car yes that is a thing that can happen now refueling seems like a nightmare and is one of the biggest problems that the Mirai is currently facing so with all that being said let's go take a chance on one of these pumps and see how it's done we're waiting there's only one thing here that could be seen as a failure having long wait times here but dude when gas stations were first introduced I'm sure there's only like one in town you had to wait remember how long it took to get a PS5 I mean it sucks I'm sure living with it would also sucked and having to wait sometimes like in the real world yeah that that is a major inconvenience let's pull in here before someone else takes it what is that did I take that off oh okay exciting yeah that's what is that it's like an air Chuck yeah it's like a big old Air Chuck connect nozzle to vehicle press onto car ooh that's cold that's like holy smokes that is a Honker that's a Honker press there we go dude it is like a big old Air Chuck that's cool so press h70 now it's filling we actually didn't use too much hydrogen the past couple days it's an efficient vehicle so it has a nearly full tank so we actually would have to find a high pressure pump there's actually two different kinds of pumps there's a lower pressure one and a high pressure one if you want to get a full tank you have to go to a high press one because as the tanks fill more pressure builds up let's say we're like 3/4 tank and above if we went to a low pressure one we wouldn't be able to fill up more because the pressure in the tanks would override the pressure in the pump itself that's interesting I also noticed this is measured in kilog which is kind of interesting because like obviously everything else is measured gallons when you come to a gas station so we got nearly a kogam 1 kg of hydrogen fuel $27 what now 2770 to be exact nice and cold feel that the Chuck cold oh that's ice cold let me see is it possible that this freezes to this if it gets cold that is possible that is something that Toyota says can happen I don't know that was uh pretty cool it's same same but different it feels very secure though it's like when you go to Europe and the plugs are different you're like why does it look like that it's doing the same thing all right deal are we leaving the fueling process in the past or do you feel like it's the future I feel like it's kind of the future it was super simple you know obviously inconveniences aside that was just like feeling up the car while the marai is green and only emits water from the tailpipe we still need to address something that I feel is pretty overlooked the environmental impact of getting that hydrogen gas to the pump in the first place Jerry take it away Jerry the science dude all right so despite being so common hydrogen is usually combined with other elements when found in nature like oxygen to form water so hydrogen gas has to be produced like electricity the cleanliness of hydrogen depends on how it was sourced and there are essentially three different tiers of hydrogen gas production each one is made a different way and is better or worse for their environment there are gray blue and green gray hydrogen is the easiest and cheap way to make hydrogen it's made by burning fossil fuels like coal and it creates a bunch of carbon monoxide in the process now I know what you might be thinking and you might be thinking that doesn't sound very good for the environment well you'd be right while the total emissions are lower than those made by fossil fuel production it's not by much and it almost negates the whole clean energy that the marai is trying to achieve and to make things worse most hydrogen produced right now is gray hydrogen blue hydrogen is also produced by messing around with fossil fuels it's a little cleaner because the carbon emissions are captured and stored underground but it's expensive it's impractical and it's not very commonly used lastly we have green hydrogen the best hydrogen this type is made by splitting water molecules with electricity in a process called electrolysis so here I have a power supply with two leads next to some stainless steel Hardware sitting and a salt solution of water now when I apply some current through that water I get a little bubbles foring so that electricity is splitting the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and that one that's got a lot of bubbles that's hydrogen now imagine if I would replace this power source with say a solar panel I could essentially get free hydrogen production all I would need would be the Sun and some water hooray the problem is it's very expensive but luckily the cost is coming down albeit slowly now does Jerry the Science Guy think hydrogen is the way of the future well I think it could be you have a lot of sun that's for free and you got a lot of water that's also for free if you can get solar pan channels that are efficient enough you can make green hydrogen production a really sustainable thing and if you can get Engineers to produce cool engines that can run on hydrogen you get the best of both worlds Jerry the science dude so the last couple days that I've had with the marai have been a pretty interesting experience but you might be wondering what do people who actually paid money for these cars think to put it mildly people aren't happy besides difficulties with refueling consumers are finding that the marai doesn't get even close to as good of a range as Toyota advertised instead of 400 Mi on a tank of hydrogen many people are claiming to only be getting around 280 this has led many to ask Toyota to buy back their vehicles and some are even looking to sue Toyota for misleading them not a great look for your new futuristic technology another problem people have is the price the marai is not a cheap vehicle the base price is over $51,000 and the higher trim limited edition cost an eyew watering $67,000 for 67 Grand you could get a nice m340i there's a lot of options out there for the $67,000 mark that all drawbacks considered with the Mari I would probably choose over this car hydrogen gas is also very pricey a full tank of this stuff could cost you around 200 buckaroos and as we've discussed the tank will probably not get you as far as a cheaper tank of gasoline and it's substantially more expensive to run a marai than just a pure EV not great one of the reasons the cost staying so high for these cars is the lack of mass adoption Toyota has described this as a chicken or the egg scenario it's a common problem that new technologies face consumers aren't buying them arai because there are so few fueling stations that they could use however no one is making more fueling stations because so few people own these cars it's a difficult problem and one that likely won't be solved without major government subsidies and development luckily there's never been a company that takes advantage of government subsidies and one way Toyota is trying to comat this is by offering insane purchase incentives they recently announced a $22,000 incentive for the base model in a $40,000 incentive for the limited edition that's this one right here that's a 60% discount they've also started giving new buyers a $155,000 fuel card which is supposedly supposed to pay for 30,000 M of range but we don't know if that actually covers 30,000 Mi of range I mean 15 grand in fuel is still pretty good I'd like it ,000 gas I wouldn't kick that out of my tank but at the end of the day the people buying these hydrogen Vehicles aren't necessarily trying to find the cheapest car possible they're trying to be on The Cutting Edge to be among the first to adopt what could very well be the next big thing in the automotive industry perhaps one day green hydrogen will be easier and cheaper to produce hydrogen fuel stations will be more abundant and all this discussion will be put to bed but until then the marai will continue to be the subject of debate for likely years to come all right deal here's my question is this the future of cars or should it be left in the past I don't know I don't really think this is quite the future because I don't know if we could have the infrastructure to support this in the future in the short term at least I think this is a great car I had a lovely time driving it very comfortable great job Toyota but if the idea fails it's not the car's fault it's the lack of infrastructure's fault so with that being said thank you so much for watching make sure you hit that subscribe button follow Zach deal on social media we'll see you next time thank you very much see you hthis is the Toyota marai a hydrogen powered car that was supposed to be the future of the automobile but that didn't really happened with hydrogen fueld becoming more expensive and stations becoming more sparse customers are Furious they've even threatened to sue Toyota and hydrogen fuel car sales are down nearly 70% from last year how has it come to this well today we're going to find out how this car Works what it's like to live with one that is a Honker that's a Honker and decide if this is the car of the future or if it should be left in the past welcome to Donut all right so first let's talk about what this car even is while hydrogen powerered engines have been in the work since the 1800s it wasn't until 2014 that Toyota first unveiled the marai to the world marai literally means future in Japanese and it's easy to see why they called it that it's the first ever mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle this technology creates zero toxic emissions just pure clean water I mean it's a car that pees out of its butt and if you've never heard of this car before you're not alone in the US you can only buy the marai in California and in 2023 less than 3,000 were sold here one reason for that is because of the unique fueling technology which we'll get to in a bit but first let's talk Aesthetics all right so this is the Toyota marai right here out of the daylight it reminds me of a Toyota Camry a lot very Camry s this is Zachary deal you might have seen him in the cybertruck video he's going to be with me driving this car today let's get into the Aesthetics of this thing I've always thought this second gen marai looks like a deep water fish the high price of this car might have something to do with how many sensors are on this thing I've been driving this for the past couple days it's constantly telling me what's going on on the road I feel very safe in it in fact there's cameras and the fenders that warn you for cross traffic when you're pulling out of parking lots or onto streets and stuff it's pretty neat this thing is a jam-packed vehicle full of technology and it also has a really cool heads up display I like a heads up display I like that a lot to to introduce that new JBL speaker the new Tacomas but I like the heads up display better I just never really liked the big sort of functional Grill here I think with this car being black it wears it well cuz it all is just the same color but when you see the blue ones or white ones of these I'm just like it looks a little bad let's start working our way around here from the side pretty good large sedan I would say the wheels look very aerodynamic the spokes are quite large quite large yeah it looks like a very multi-spoke design I want to see what's under the hood of this thing because I'm super curious it's got a hood release just like every other Toyota pretty much wa oh I was actually expecting nothing but there actually is a fuel cell in the fuel cell vehicle I'll be honest the amount of orange wires in here is frankly alarming I mean you're not going to be working on this thing okay people say the same thing about EVS like how you going to work on them yourself I think that's a valid concern and when you add in extremely Hightech components like an actual fuel cell to the equation I'm not going to work on that I'm not going to do that I know what's going on all right let's take a look at the inside real quick on the inside not too crazy it has Apple carplay and everything it does pretty standard Toyota fair I think it's very comfortable it's not too crazy in your face I actually like it too and I was going to say there's not like a ton of buttons in here CL control you got down here buttons for the volume control which is kind of weird honestly pre style shifter if you've driven a Prius before you know how the shifter works it's not quite to Lexus levels I would say but it's pretty nice overall what do we think exterior keep it or leave it in the past leave it in the past I agree I think it needs a little restyling interior though pretty nice watching donut huh well well well what do we have here who hello wait till I show everyone this looks like I arrived just in time good thing you have today's sponsor surf shark it's the go-to VPN that encrypts your internet data keeping your sensitive information safe from hackers so you can look at all the hot cars you want no judgment here man stream your favorite show shop online and Bank securely no matter where you are with one account you can protect all your devices simultaneously All For One Price you can choose from thousands of servers worldwide for super fast speeds and access geol blocked content if you want to keep your online browsing and YouTube watching to yourself secure your privacy with surf shark try it out right now with a risk-free 30-day money back guarantee andent her promo code donut media for an extra 3 months free at surfshark dodeals donut media that's go donut media to get three extra months of protection for free so how the heck does this thing move around using hydrogen anyway well to answer that question I've got just the guy for the job Jerry the science dude science R the science dude so how do we get this puppy moving well to kick things off you'll need hydrogen and you're in luck because it just so happens to be the most abundant element in the universe also it's highly flammable but the marai doesn't ignite its fuel with a spark plug like an internal combustion engine would in fact it kind of does something a lot cooler it turns it into water the second generation marai like the one we have stores up to 5.6 kg that's 12.35 lbs of hydrogen between three carbon fiber fuel tanks at a super high pressure of 10,000 PSI when you press the accelerator hydrogen from the fuel tanks and oxygen from the intake are sent on a collision course straight to the fuel cell and it's there where the magic happens but what is a fuel cell well put very simply it's two plates separated by sort of filter air and hydrogen enter the fuel cell on opposite sides hydrogen impairs as H2 into one plate and air into the other inside the hydrogen plate is a platinum Catalyst and what that does is strip the electron from the hydrogen atom the protons are then drawn towards the oxygen in the air on the other side of the cell to get there they pass through something called a proton exchange membrane that's the filter we mentioned earlier which keeps the electrons out and this is the most important part because these electrons are what power the car as the hydrogen protons travel towards the oxygen the electrons they're left behind and are forced out and sent to the PCU the power control unit as electrical current which distributes power to the electric motor and drives the wheel if the PCU receives more energy than it needs it sends the excess to a battery so you can use it later very very cool so the electrons help power the car but what happened to those hydrogen atoms the hydrogen meets up with its buddy oxygen to form water and that's the stuff getting leaked out all over the LA streets oh that's real nice marai P I call it glug glug glug that's not water so how much power does this create exactly well not much less than one volt gets produced from one of these fuel cells but the marai doesn't just have one fuel cell oh no it actually has 320 separate fuel cell layers combined into something called a fuel cell stack and that gives us enough power to make 182 electric ponies this might sound really inefficient but it's actually way more efficient than an internal combustion engine the marai fru cell stack operates at over 60% efficiency compared to 30 to 40% of a modern ice is this the future well it could be but currently there's way more investment in edting technology which can operate up to 90% efficiency science rules chill chill science dude feel the power of hydrogen deal oh I will say on the street this is a great car well I am sitting passenger princess so I mean I don't really have like a good impression of it at first I can't really figure out what to do with my legs foot placement here is like OD maybe it's because maybe you can adjust your seat if you want that's no this is as far back andart as it goes yeah no kidding and I'm touching the ceiling if I the car itself actually does feel kind of big but the inside feels very small it feels pretty small I just think that's a byproduct of having a hydrogen tank right underneath us here and the fuel cell in front of us and more tanks behind us there's just not going to be a ton of space in here yeah it's the sound is weird oo I think that's fake but maybe not to describe it it sort of sounds like if you were being transported up into a UFO oh yes it's the same sound you would here yeah yeah yeah this is a great car in traffic even though it's pretty long it doesn't feel big probably cuz I'm low to the ground and I've got really great visibility out the front I can see everything that's going on right now so this is a 2023 limited trim marai it's got a modest 182 horsepower 300 fo lbs of torque not bad I can go 0 to 60 in 9.2 seconds now that we know how this thing Works let's get into the biggest difference between this and any other car on the road which is refueling first how far can you get on a tank of hydrogen uh Toyota says pretty freaking far but customers say otherwise Toyota claims that the marai gets between 357 and 42 M of range it's pretty good that's twice my car and it's much higher than your average EV which only gets about 250 M on one charge Mari sounds like a pretty sweet deal if that figure is actually true there are currently 48 fueling stations in the state of California mostly clustered in the San Fran and La areas now that might not sound too bad but to put that into perspective there are over 10,000 regular gas stations in the state all right so here's a little app that shows all the hydrogen stations in SoCal we are located in Englewood California now the nearest one to us is right near LAX but you can see the icon there is red it's got only oh it's closed doesn't have any fuel just closed so uh that's not going to work what about this one over here in Marina del re it's offline and only has 5 kg of fuel available at their facility not very convenient you'll see similar to these other stations that are close to us this guy right here it's limited 2 kg and not only are there not very many hydrogen stations to choose from but many of them are broken or could be out of hydrogen on any given day and what's worse is that you could drive a long way to get to a station that the app says is working wasting a good amount of your precious fuel in the process and then it could be closed anyway or there might be a massive line or the guy who got there just before you had the pump freeze to his car yes that is a thing that can happen now refueling seems like a nightmare and is one of the biggest problems that the Mirai is currently facing so with all that being said let's go take a chance on one of these pumps and see how it's done we're waiting there's only one thing here that could be seen as a failure having long wait times here but dude when gas stations were first introduced I'm sure there's only like one in town you had to wait remember how long it took to get a PS5 I mean it sucks I'm sure living with it would also sucked and having to wait sometimes like in the real world yeah that that is a major inconvenience let's pull in here before someone else takes it what is that did I take that off oh okay exciting yeah that's what is that it's like an air Chuck yeah it's like a big old Air Chuck connect nozzle to vehicle press onto car ooh that's cold that's like holy smokes that is a Honker that's a Honker press there we go dude it is like a big old Air Chuck that's cool so press h70 now it's filling we actually didn't use too much hydrogen the past couple days it's an efficient vehicle so it has a nearly full tank so we actually would have to find a high pressure pump there's actually two different kinds of pumps there's a lower pressure one and a high pressure one if you want to get a full tank you have to go to a high press one because as the tanks fill more pressure builds up let's say we're like 3/4 tank and above if we went to a low pressure one we wouldn't be able to fill up more because the pressure in the tanks would override the pressure in the pump itself that's interesting I also noticed this is measured in kilog which is kind of interesting because like obviously everything else is measured gallons when you come to a gas station so we got nearly a kogam 1 kg of hydrogen fuel $27 what now 2770 to be exact nice and cold feel that the Chuck cold oh that's ice cold let me see is it possible that this freezes to this if it gets cold that is possible that is something that Toyota says can happen I don't know that was uh pretty cool it's same same but different it feels very secure though it's like when you go to Europe and the plugs are different you're like why does it look like that it's doing the same thing all right deal are we leaving the fueling process in the past or do you feel like it's the future I feel like it's kind of the future it was super simple you know obviously inconveniences aside that was just like feeling up the car while the marai is green and only emits water from the tailpipe we still need to address something that I feel is pretty overlooked the environmental impact of getting that hydrogen gas to the pump in the first place Jerry take it away Jerry the science dude all right so despite being so common hydrogen is usually combined with other elements when found in nature like oxygen to form water so hydrogen gas has to be produced like electricity the cleanliness of hydrogen depends on how it was sourced and there are essentially three different tiers of hydrogen gas production each one is made a different way and is better or worse for their environment there are gray blue and green gray hydrogen is the easiest and cheap way to make hydrogen it's made by burning fossil fuels like coal and it creates a bunch of carbon monoxide in the process now I know what you might be thinking and you might be thinking that doesn't sound very good for the environment well you'd be right while the total emissions are lower than those made by fossil fuel production it's not by much and it almost negates the whole clean energy that the marai is trying to achieve and to make things worse most hydrogen produced right now is gray hydrogen blue hydrogen is also produced by messing around with fossil fuels it's a little cleaner because the carbon emissions are captured and stored underground but it's expensive it's impractical and it's not very commonly used lastly we have green hydrogen the best hydrogen this type is made by splitting water molecules with electricity in a process called electrolysis so here I have a power supply with two leads next to some stainless steel Hardware sitting and a salt solution of water now when I apply some current through that water I get a little bubbles foring so that electricity is splitting the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and that one that's got a lot of bubbles that's hydrogen now imagine if I would replace this power source with say a solar panel I could essentially get free hydrogen production all I would need would be the Sun and some water hooray the problem is it's very expensive but luckily the cost is coming down albeit slowly now does Jerry the Science Guy think hydrogen is the way of the future well I think it could be you have a lot of sun that's for free and you got a lot of water that's also for free if you can get solar pan channels that are efficient enough you can make green hydrogen production a really sustainable thing and if you can get Engineers to produce cool engines that can run on hydrogen you get the best of both worlds Jerry the science dude so the last couple days that I've had with the marai have been a pretty interesting experience but you might be wondering what do people who actually paid money for these cars think to put it mildly people aren't happy besides difficulties with refueling consumers are finding that the marai doesn't get even close to as good of a range as Toyota advertised instead of 400 Mi on a tank of hydrogen many people are claiming to only be getting around 280 this has led many to ask Toyota to buy back their vehicles and some are even looking to sue Toyota for misleading them not a great look for your new futuristic technology another problem people have is the price the marai is not a cheap vehicle the base price is over $51,000 and the higher trim limited edition cost an eyew watering $67,000 for 67 Grand you could get a nice m340i there's a lot of options out there for the $67,000 mark that all drawbacks considered with the Mari I would probably choose over this car hydrogen gas is also very pricey a full tank of this stuff could cost you around 200 buckaroos and as we've discussed the tank will probably not get you as far as a cheaper tank of gasoline and it's substantially more expensive to run a marai than just a pure EV not great one of the reasons the cost staying so high for these cars is the lack of mass adoption Toyota has described this as a chicken or the egg scenario it's a common problem that new technologies face consumers aren't buying them arai because there are so few fueling stations that they could use however no one is making more fueling stations because so few people own these cars it's a difficult problem and one that likely won't be solved without major government subsidies and development luckily there's never been a company that takes advantage of government subsidies and one way Toyota is trying to comat this is by offering insane purchase incentives they recently announced a $22,000 incentive for the base model in a $40,000 incentive for the limited edition that's this one right here that's a 60% discount they've also started giving new buyers a $155,000 fuel card which is supposedly supposed to pay for 30,000 M of range but we don't know if that actually covers 30,000 Mi of range I mean 15 grand in fuel is still pretty good I'd like it ,000 gas I wouldn't kick that out of my tank but at the end of the day the people buying these hydrogen Vehicles aren't necessarily trying to find the cheapest car possible they're trying to be on The Cutting Edge to be among the first to adopt what could very well be the next big thing in the automotive industry perhaps one day green hydrogen will be easier and cheaper to produce hydrogen fuel stations will be more abundant and all this discussion will be put to bed but until then the marai will continue to be the subject of debate for likely years to come all right deal here's my question is this the future of cars or should it be left in the past I don't know I don't really think this is quite the future because I don't know if we could have the infrastructure to support this in the future in the short term at least I think this is a great car I had a lovely time driving it very comfortable great job Toyota but if the idea fails it's not the car's fault it's the lack of infrastructure's fault so with that being said thank you so much for watching make sure you hit that subscribe 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