What was announced as a 2050 pipe dream by Kawasaki, the company's hydrogen-powered, four-hooved, all-terrain robot horse vehicle Corleo is actually going into production and is now expected to be commercially available decades earlier – with the first model to debut in just four years.
Why’d they have to make a gimmick vehicle then make it even more gimmicky by making it hydrogen powered
When it runs out of fuel it’s just an Orse
For some reason, lots of Japanese companies are in love with hydrogen despite it being the dumbest possible solution for compact mobile energy storage. The auto companies in particular keep trying to push it. I’ve been wondering if it’s a combination of trying desperately to recoup some R&D spending before the patents expire, the Japanese corporate culture of “the boss is always right”, and senior leaders who won’t risk the personal embarrassment of having backed the wrong horse for their entire senior management career and admitting that hydrogen fuel is a dumb idea.