Former President Donald Trump said he opposed green energy Tuesday because hydrogen cars "explode." During a speech in Savannah, Georgia, Trump lashed out at the green energy industry. "We have the product for gasoline-powered cars under our feet and Hybrids, and we want to have electric cars,...

WITAF.

At best, he doesn’t understand what a Hybrid Car is.

  • stewie3128@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    I have a hydrogen car. H2 explodes more readily than it burns. The containment tanks are designed to mitigate this, and they are routinely tested with high-caliber rifles to make sure. There are YouTube videos of the tests.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      EV battery packs are also designed to mitigate thermal runaway events, even down to Tesla packs making every cell connection a fuse on case of issues. That doesn’t stop them from catching fire anyway after some accidents.