Hindenburg Memories Cloud Shell's Vision of Hydrogen Future

摘要

Taxi driver Theo Ellis, the first person in Europe to drive Toyota Motor Corp.'s hydrogen-powered Mi-rai sedan for business, loves telling passengers about the technology that emits nothing but water. They ask him about its costs, greenness and the majority inquire about safety. To his passengers, the word "hydrogen" evokes memories of the Hindenburg, the airship that was destroyed in half a minute when it caught fire in 1937, or the H-bomb, a successor to what the U.S. dropped on Japan to end World War II.