Scuba tank, the filling process takes several minutes I heard, think 15+ for a car.
The tanks in cars are around 800 bar, reinforce carbon fibre with a bladder inside.
To fill it the compressor station has to deliver higher pressure, I recall 1200 bar but not sure about it.
Also hydrogen has the oddity to produce heat when expanding, which means the filling process needs to be actively cooled.
Considering current CCS and future MCS charging ports and their speed I think the hydrogen lost another advantage if it ever had a refuelling time advantage.
Reading about this and matching it up with what I see in some more recent electric truck and ferry charging videos I feel this is almost historic tech.
I don't agree with you that we need more smaller buttons.
Nowadays you can have buttons and dials that you can roll freely or step and press (in, and even to sides). All these actions are sufficiently different to me.
If done well the button can even be context sensitive when combined well with the car UI.
Even a current Toyota Corolla has lane assistance but turning it on, settings etc are just better at the Tesla model 3 I drive. Lane keeping is good, haptic and audio feedback are good.
The Toyota has haptic steering wheel feedback that I have not figured out yet, it steers but also leaves the lane. The Toyota chirms/acoustic sounds appear to me not used consistently across different functions, sound too similar or not warning enough. Admittedly this can all be personal choice and getting used to.
Yes, so in the morning the auto will heat your windows, turn on your seat and steering wheel heating and make it warm to your set temperature, then dial it down to keep the temp. When warmed it will cool as needed. This is not new or Tesla specific.
And maybe it will work. Thanks! But maybe, you know, sometimes I just want to knock it off a notch while driving. I must be so complicated… why would I want to regulate temperature manually. Or change some other obscure setting a genius from California never considered to be useful because “it works in my climate”.
By the way… there’s nothing preventing auto aircon and having a manual dial to change the setting rather than through a touchscreen. It safer. You know, in case if you have to. Which you don’t have to, apparently. That’s cool.
Lexus has had this since 1991 or earlier. Except Lexus also had actual dedicated buttons, because sometimes you want to tweak it (due to sunlight or whatever clothing you were wearing or your mood).
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