I'm so glad Top Gear outed Mr. Bean as a huge petrolhead ~15 years ago, otherwise my brain would've cracked at his profound interest and knowledge, not to forget his bloody racing drivers licence!
@@greengamerguy623both! Hydrogen is easier to produce and you pretty much only need water, air and electricity, bonus if the electricity is 100% clean.
Hydrogen is the most abundant resource in the world. This fuel could be used for everything, it just need more improvements regards it's efficiency and storage. Because this fuel have a lot of potential...
In a way I'm sad that he's best known for Mr Bean...Fawlty Towers had already perfected slapstick, whereas Blackadder II to Goes Fourth were unique works of, quite frankly, genius
Just humble, genuine and Enthusiastic Fan of the Whole Car world including Formula 1 This is what a Car guy is supposed to be Be open to new ideas, trying different things and Praising them Not everything is supposed to be a Supra Competition or something
Atkinson is one of the few persons I look up to. Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, and most likely could have continued towards PhD and earned a Professorship if he chose so instead of focusing on acting. His great intellect also shows in his witty manner of speaking, which made Blackadder one of his greatest works. Plus, he's not some overly ecological hypocrite who wants to ban driving from those who cannot use public transportation, but instead takes this pragmatic and realistic approach to study and promote ways to make the driving itself more ecological.
Rowan should be a presenter on Top Gear. Get it back to a more rational and scientific format and let him do the technical bits and bobs, he'd be brilliant.
For as much as I love Rowan, Chris Harris still has him beat on his enthusiasm technical knowledge of cars, as well as the fact that he's a more talented driver too.
I havent seen any of the recent top gear, but from their UA-cam videos it's definitely more rational and scientific than it was with the clarkson/hammond/may trio... arguably at the expense of humor
Well you can't ask anyone better than Rowan to be the ambassador for future motor sports development, he is such a pleasant person to listen & talk with.
And the fact that he is a holder of Masters in Electrical Engineering meaning he knows very well what he was talking about, not just some script given by the motorsport engineering team
I saw this live! It was awesome! I love the Yaris GR and I think it’s amazing they’ve done this hydrogen version, a much more interesting alternative than electric cars!
He did a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Newcastle. 1975, he did an MSc in Electrical Engineering at The Queen's College, Oxford. His MSc thesis, published in 1978, was about control systems
rowan atkinson is such an amazing human being, he was bullied heavily at youth for his looks, and he had a stuttering problem, mental breakdowns, but he over came all that and became who he is today.
Jul 17, 2023 It's the cost of the hydrogen fuel itself, which in California is generally priced at about $25 per kilogram. At that price point, it would cost about $135 to fill up a standard car.
@@kylereese4822 Nope, it's $16.51 per kilogram, and with efficiency of about 75 MPGe (average of around 450 miles per fill-up), it's just barely more expensive than ICE. Fuel Cost is a very minor problem. Availability is the bigger problem unless you live and drive near the fuel sources.
@@sqlevolicious volume is the issue. That car shown in this video has a range of about 200 km only and the whole back side of the car is the H2 tank. So you can only seat 2 people in the car and have no trunk. This is not feasible for anything but as a concept or for racing.
As Rowan Atkinson himself said the combustion engine still has something to give. A top gear star in a reasonably priced vehicle and absolute Chad. Glad he's the one to drive the hydrogen powered yaris at GoodWood FoS.
Jul 17, 2023It's the cost of the hydrogen fuel itself, which in California is generally priced at about $25 per kilogram. At that price point, it would cost about $135 to fill up a standard car.
What's the point. Using electricity to create hydrogen that you have to transport to where it's needed. It would be much more efficient just to use the electricity directly.
The fuel cell itself was carried over from the Toyota Mirai hydrogen-electric road car. Most hydrogen fueling stations now days dispense compressed hydrogen gas at 5,000 psi and 10,000 psi or at both pressures. Under or behind the rear seat or between the front seats..
luckily not. Hydrogen is too inefficient to use as a fuel in cars which makes it too expensive so nobody is gonna use it outside of rich peoples performance cars.
No it isnt, this car is hydrogen combustion. Hydrogen fuel cells are like 2x more efficient, hydrogen combustion also has terrible range and power and much less energy dense than gasoline.
since his days in Mr Bean he was an absolute great driver, rewatching the show as a grown up, made me realize how good hhe managed that mini on the show
If I'm not mistaken the newer GR Yaris Hybrid (when tuned) can already go from flat to 100kmph in 3,5 seconds (correct me if wrong), so I'm definitely all ears what this can pull off!
Hydrogen Combustion Engines make no sense. Make the calculation: ~1kWh x 13.000 miles x 290.000.000 cars = how many TWh of electricity needed per year? How much electricity does the US use right now? Do you really think we will double the electricity production, so people can keep driving ICE's?
@cockmcballs4577 Yeah. There is already problems with roads because EV:s weight too much and cause damage. Eletric infrastruckture can''t sustain lot of EV cars. Its just a hoax
I love the toyota concept! I hope it's taken up by ALL the motoring categories. It's not very energy dense though, so F1 would have to bring back refueling, which would be awesome!
@@RationalCreed that is not gonna happen in this way. The whole back of the car is the H2 tank to give the car a 200km range. This concept is not going to become much more efficient than this. For mainstream cars there is no alternatives to the electric motor. But there are several ways to power them, all of them include at least a small battery but then a range extender can be added, like a H2 fuel cell or even a gasoline power generator. Toyota could blast the competion if they really tried to for instance by mass producing cheaper fuel cell vehicles (and adding a charging plug) and/or by forcing their mass production of their solid state batteries a lot earlier than 2027.
@@s2korpionic In most of the movies, Mr. Bean's Mini mustard yellow, but in some episodes Mini is lime green, but also in the cartoon. There are some episodes where Mini is orange. However, all have black bonnets. 👍
I still call him Mr bean, and it's funny to me seeing him seriously and to hear him speak🙊 yet i love this man! got a big global reputation for a role playing someone he dislikes as he said himself on a interview because mr bean is the opposite of himself. And this video really proofs that, he's a kind humble man who knows his stuff or let other people talk about things and listens to what he doesn't know There are 4 famous people on this world today I would love to meet, 1-Rowan Atkinson 2/4 - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & Captain slow
Great bloke. Rohan has a degree in electrical engineering, a degree in electronic engineering and a Masters in electrical engineering. So he knows what he’s talking about.
Yeah but he's clueless when it's question of comparing which energy makes more sense for the future, hydrogen has such a low efficiency when produced from electricity that it's like just wasting electricity, it won't go anywhere but yeah at least Rowan can pocket a juicy check and have fun on the track working for Toyota for a bit....
@@PropanePete Your bieliefs are pretty wrong and will be proven wrong in a near future. Electric cars aren't perfect but their climate impact and energy use is way better than petrol cars, but yeah there's no point arguing against people EV fake news, time will demonstrate it by itself. Basically to summarize curent science knowledge : the future of cars is electric but the future of mobility is not cars.
@@manu.yt25 So Manu, in your "belief" (you said my beliefs are wrong), what is the future of mobility? I think you're a city dweller (no offence meant). I live 1600 km from the Capitol City of my State in a regional town and further west in the outback it can be several hundred km's between fuel stops, plus a lot of dirt roads. No trains and buses so what other than a car would I use for "mobility" in these regions and thousands of people travel in remote areas daily. I'm actually camped in the bush in a 4x4 diesel vehicle right now with an Elon Musk Starlink internet setup, no phone network out here.
@@miketran4289 It's actually possible. They've actually retrofitted the classic AE86 Trueno car to run in hydrogen. You can search AE86 H2 Concept on the other Toyota Channel.
It is actually not possible, Toyota made the engine based on the gasonline version but it actually is a new engine. Engineering Explained has some details on this and also why it is not feasible for daily use: ua-cam.com/video/3IPR50-soNA/v-deo.html
@@channel4ferrets John Kerry has just admitted that if half the cars in America were electric the power supply would have to double in capacity. What do you think we would need to do in the UK?
@@5ebra1 If all cars in the US are electric, you only need 30% more power. When all cars are hydrogen, you need 90 to 150% more power. I don't know what John Kerry said but it's bull.
@@5ebra1 for the calculation: cars drive 13,000 miles a year on average, there are 290,000,000 cars in the US. Power consumption for EV's is 0,32kWh per mile on average. That makes 1,206TWh of power. Currently the US is using 4,000TWh of power.
@@5ebra1 For the UK: the UK currently uses around 300TWh of electricity in a year. There are 33,2 million cars on the road in the UK that drive 7.400 miles per year on average. So you would need 33.200.000 cars x 7.400 miles x 0,32 kWh = 78,6TWh of electricity in a year. That's a 26,2% increase. When driving a hydrogen car, that would be 78 to 130% increase in electricity consumption, depending on fuel cell or ICE on hydrogen.
Did you guys remember how he drove a "Yaris of his time" with him on the roof, sitting on a living room chair with a mop on his hands for break and a string for steering? Legend has it that, thats how he started driving at Goodwood. Officials had to tell him to sit inside the car.
Only issue with H² ICE cars is that(as much as I like them)it's not as efficient when compared to a simpler fuel cell, burning it creates waste heat that drops range by a ton Range being a key issue, as compressed H² takes a lot of storage space for the range you get, if they can work out a solid compound storage solution as they do with O² respirators on airplanes then that story might change
But it refilled much faster than fastest charging time of mass produced ev cars. Typical ev cars need 100% charge from near empty around 1 hour, and typical fast charge around 20-30 min. Current road going hydrogen cars like toyota mirai need around 5-7 minute from near empty to full. Hydrogen can be easily transported like fossile fuel does.
@@muhammadhanifkurnaen6689 yes the filtrate is fast, but the issue of space is a huge one, also thru no inherent fault of Hydrogen there simply is little infrastructure in places outside of California, even there there are limitations on availability I do believe H² is the best solution in the long run, however not in its current form, we need to either graduate to concentrated hydrogen solids(compounds) or there will need to be fill stations essentially everywhere gas ones are so we can reduce the number of tanks & simply fill up much more often then already done. As example, the rear half of that GR Toyota is nothing but extra H² tanks, & during racing it needed to fill up more then an extra 20 times OVER it's conventionally fueled competitors IIRC, so it's simply not a viable solution the world over just yet, but inside of LA utilized in fuel cells, sure
You have to remember that hydrogen internal combustion engines are still in development stages. Also, most of the information on hydrogen engines is typically several years old. This Toyota for example has a pretty old prototype in it. The newest prototypes get nearly the same range as gasoline and reach efficiency levels of almost 70 percent with zero emissions.
It takes a lot of energy to separate out hydrogen - it's not "free for the picking." Storage and distribution is much more difficult than gasoline due to how small the hydrogen atom is - leaks will be common. It also has to be kept very cold and under high pressure to stay in liquid form, else range and storage are limited. I'm surprised that Atkinson took part in this - he's very bright and no doubt knows these issues, that it's not all rainbows and sunshine as it's being pitched.
And don't forget that the ICE (whether powered by hydrogen or petrol) is in itself very inefficient. If Toyota would quit screwing around and build an electric Yaris I'd buy one. i have a Yaris Hybrid at the moment (there was nowhere near enough charging stations in Spain six years ago when I was shopping around for a new car but that is being resolved fairly quickly now) and I love it - but the hybrid is only a stopgap between ICE and electric, and I'd like my next car to be electric.
@@malcolmrose3361 This is a big scam that EV car manufacturers like to promote. Batteries take loads of energy to mine, manufacture and ultimately recycle. It'll be literally years before it ends up more efficient than any car with a lower manufacturing footprint. Assuming your electricity isn't coming from a fossil fuel plant anyway (and spain still uses plenty of fossil gas) And only if you drive it enough & keep it long enough for those benefits to be realised. (on the order of 100s of thousands of km)
@@dinjil1488 No, he is an uninformed fool to think that Lithium-ion batteries contain many rare earth metals. Or was he paid by Toyota to spread that nonsense ...
Its difficult to imagine a person more soothing and lovely than Rowan Atkinson. Not only is he highly intelligent and a raging petrolhead , but is also really handy behing the wheel of a car and prepared to use his platform for a viable alternative fuel that could potentially save the internal combustion engine!
@@Simon-dm8zv And electric cars are? With their suboptimal efficiency at highway speeds, and the fact that you need to ship their batteries around the world five times till they can be put into cars. Also, let's not forget that the electricity is still made in environmentally harmful ways, and the fact that most developed countries are running out of electricity, having to resort to burning more coal in order to supply the needs of the citizens. Moving swiftly back to batteries, recycling which is extremely difficult, and require a huge amount of highly toxic and highly dangerous materials to be mined from damn near slave labor in Africa (cobalt mines). And finally the fact that using the existing infrastructure that like it or not, we have already got around the internal combustion engine, and making it more clean, using hydrogen as a fuel, as opposed to traditional fossil fuels is way more efficient rather than totally reinventing the wheel (electric engine). I recognize that in city centers and urban areas electric cars might be sensible but as soon as you drive any further than 200 miles the entire electric car concept falters, and since that is still something that the vast majority of people do, getting rid of the combustion engine is simply not viable and extremely counter productive. Would you like me to go on?
@@jacobstaub6676 To be clear: hydrogen internal combustion engine cars are 5 times less efficient than an EV. No matter at what speed. So you need 5 times more electricity to drive the same distance. And you are worried about electricity for EVs not being fully renewable?!
As an American 🇺🇸 who just today toured Toyota's Auto Museum in Japan 🇯🇵 , I can't help but see Toyota is on the correct path. I love my own EV's cheap fuel & ease on mechanicals, but most people in the world don't have: -Attached garages. -Luxury of extra charging time on road trips -Personal safety while waiting at night 45 minutes+ in strange city. Toyota's BEV + PHEV + HEV + ICE + Hydrogen strategy is pragmatic & rational.
Sorry to have to tell you but Toyota is dropping the lot .. When your "Strategy" is to sell parts and service, BEVs throw a wrench into it! EVs do not allow you to screw your customers on parts and service ..
@@spencerbardell2180 I used to feel the same until buying a Range Extender 3 years ago. Now I see that any 40 mile PHEV is a perfect 1-car solution: -14,000 miles annually on cheap, clean residential electric power. - combustion engine will last nearly forever on 1 annual service. - Zero range anxiety. - No need to adjust your life & schedule to your car's charging demands. - Current infrastructure for petrol is globally universal. We drove 24,000 miles last year on 25 gallons of petrol. One easy oil change that I did myself in 15 minutes. I'm sold. Different horses for different courses.
@@spencerbardell2180 you do know that you can still screw over customers with EVs right? and EVs still have a lot of mechanical parts and would still need to be serviced frequently, but a lot of it will be software based now.
@@donswier you do understand this thread is about idiocy of hydrogen, right? I agree with you with your methods.. I live in the Frozen Colonies and I am a fan of plug in hybrids as a transition method but I now drive a TESLAAAAA Model S and have ZERO regrets..
Hydrogen in roadcars has no future. Don't hate me for saying it, just take in the numbers and calculate what it would cost to drive one mile in a hydrogen driven (hEV or ICE) car vs an EV. It's no match. Facts don't care about feelings or successful car brands.
Based on what? Hydrogen is made from fossil fuels, or, for the 1% that is made from electricity, it takes so many kWh per kg that the CO2 per 100km is still more than gasoline, even from a clean grid like in BC, Canada. Its not a clean renewable fuel.
@@toyotauk it's my daily when I'm home at weekends, work away during the week. Hasn't stopped me racking up 30,000~ miles in 18 months 😂 amazing little rocket 👍🏻.
@@toyotauk pretty much the story every weekend, hit the Hartside pass maybe, Buttertubs pass sometimes, Southern Scotland, decisions, decisions...it just eats up those tight, twisting British B-roads like nothing else 👌🏻
Hello mr atkinsson. i like your take on hydrogen and I feel that this is far better than electric cars. You sir have given me and my family quit a few lafs iver the years So I salute you for that. And I remembered a collegue of mine i the north of sweden that could pass and have been misstakenly taken for mr been several times.
Technically, it's Toyota sending out the anti EV messages, they likely paid Atkinson and gave him a fact sheet to run from, and no doubt helped shape the anti EV Guardian article from a few weeks back too, he's too smart to actually believe hydrogen will solve green transportation, and knows the emissions and wasted energy from making hydrogen completely contradicts the 'clean motoring' schtick Toyota is pedalling. Toyota's goal here is not to get you into a hydrogen car you can't afford to buy or fuel, it's to keep you out of an electric one you can. They want you to keep buying gasoline cars while waiting for the always 5 years away hydrogen economy to finally happen - it's been 5 years away since the 1970's.
Most hydrogen fueling stations now days dispense compressed hydrogen gas at 5,000 psi and 10,000 psi or at both pressures. Liquefaction Gaseous hydrogen is liquefied by cooling it to below −253°C (−423°F). liquefaction consumes more than 30% of the energy content of the hydrogen and is expensive.
@@kylereese4822 Interesting. Also most of it is made using coal or natural gas so its not helping the environment yet, I really hope we can figure out some better technology soon. Im not interested in hydrogen fuel cell cars those are just another boring EV.
At the 2023 Le Man's Toyota had the hydrogen fuelled Corolla that did the Japanese 25hrs event earlier on in the year with the engine on display. Safe to say the whole event was focused on hydrogen and alternative synthetic fuels over BEV power. In 2026 Toyota will be putting a hydrogen combustion engine in the LMPH racing car and what usually gets developed at Le Mans ends up in your road car.
It won't get in your road car. One simple reason: just for the US only, we need 3700TWh of electricity for 290 million cars to run on hydrogen. Currently we produce around 4000TWh so we need to double our electricity production. If you don't believe me, look up the numbers. They are publicly available. It's simple: "kWh per mile" times "miles per year" times "cars on the road" and that number divided by 0.7 for the hydrogen electrolysis divided by 1,000,000,000 is the power needed in TWh. Can't make it any easier.
I’m so glad Toyota isn’t jumping completely on the EV bandwagon like everyone else. Hydrogen seems like a more realistic alternative to fossil fuels rather than giant lithium batteries.
@@abnfalcon3901 Yep, it's also not unheard of either. Dolph Lundgren even has a Masters in Chemical Engineering and won the Fulbright Scholarship to go to MIT for his PhD before he became a movie star.
He’s come a long way from driving on his roof to now inside the car.
Wonder where that blue three-wheeler is
the 1977 Leyland Cars Mini 1000 Mark IV is great looking
😅
Can't stop laughing 😅😅😂😂😂
Still 3 cylinders though
I'm so glad Top Gear outed Mr. Bean as a huge petrolhead ~15 years ago, otherwise my brain would've cracked at his profound interest and knowledge, not to forget his bloody racing drivers licence!
Great driver!
It was all the practice in the mini.
think his mclaren f1 purchase gave him away lol
the main reason i ever got into cars was from mr bean i had a mini when i was 10 learn to drive in it lol
@@Homingjoeyjrthat's what gave it away for me lol. And he Daily Drove/grocery ran that thing too!
I actually feel that Hydrogen has a more realistic future than dragging around a tonne of batteries in your 2.5 tonne car.
Or we can just use synthetic gas fuel
@@greengamerguy623both! Hydrogen is easier to produce and you pretty much only need water, air and electricity, bonus if the electricity is 100% clean.
@@514aam but Hydrogen is hard to store but I am glad we have more possible way to keep internal combustion engine alive.
@@greengamerguy623fr, and isn't Biofuel stuff already existed for decades now??
Hydrogen is the most abundant resource in the world. This fuel could be used for everything, it just need more improvements regards it's efficiency and storage. Because this fuel have a lot of potential...
This guy is such a legend. Never puts a foot wrong, never says anything stupid and has ( did have ? ) a licence to drive an artic. What a guy.
Guy was a genius man. that's why he's also good at acting as MR Bean.
@@magnetaria He is actually a Certified Genius with an IQ of 178 and a degree in electrical engineering
He crashed his own McLaren F1 twice which is funny
@@shinga_lana wow, thats interesting
Well, he recently wrote a pretty stupid article in the Guardian. But I suspect his motives were well aligned with Toyota in that regard.
He really is a down to earth, humble, kind & well spoken legend.🏁🔥
In a way I'm sad that he's best known for Mr Bean...Fawlty Towers had already perfected slapstick, whereas Blackadder II to Goes Fourth were unique works of, quite frankly, genius
@@yrysroda8592 Blackadder is so good.
Just humble, genuine and Enthusiastic Fan of the Whole Car world including Formula 1
This is what a Car guy is supposed to be
Be open to new ideas, trying different things and Praising them
Not everything is supposed to be a Supra Competition or something
You can tell that to some braindead americans and their trucks.
I could not have said it better myself
I agree falcon
Atkinson is one of the few persons I look up to. Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, and most likely could have continued towards PhD and earned a Professorship if he chose so instead of focusing on acting. His great intellect also shows in his witty manner of speaking, which made Blackadder one of his greatest works. Plus, he's not some overly ecological hypocrite who wants to ban driving from those who cannot use public transportation, but instead takes this pragmatic and realistic approach to study and promote ways to make the driving itself more ecological.
well said
Rowan should be a presenter on Top Gear. Get it back to a more rational and scientific format and let him do the technical bits and bobs, he'd be brilliant.
couldn't take the pay cut
For as much as I love Rowan, Chris Harris still has him beat on his enthusiasm technical knowledge of cars, as well as the fact that he's a more talented driver too.
@@shona5512yup Chris is great.
top gear cant afford him
I havent seen any of the recent top gear, but from their UA-cam videos it's definitely more rational and scientific than it was with the clarkson/hammond/may trio... arguably at the expense of humor
Rowan Atkinson, is a brilliant actor, comedian and race car driver. He was on Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and company and Rowan did a fabulous lap.
Don't forget he was an engineer before he got into comedy.
Well you can't ask anyone better than Rowan to be the ambassador for future motor sports development, he is such a pleasant person to listen & talk with.
And the fact that he is a holder of Masters in Electrical Engineering meaning he knows very well what he was talking about, not just some script given by the motorsport engineering team
He is such a sweet and kind man. Spoken to him quite a bit. He's a very humble and gentle soul.
Rowan Atkinson is awesome. We need to see more of him in the automotive field, whether it be him racing or perhaps his own car channel!
To my surprise, he holds a degree in electrical engineering. Like John Cleese who is a actually a qualified lawyer.
Hes a national treasure
Rowan Atkinson is awesome and one of the greatest petrol heads, hes worked hard his whole life and has owned some amazing cars, much respect!
I saw this live! It was awesome! I love the Yaris GR and I think it’s amazing they’ve done this hydrogen version, a much more interesting alternative than electric cars!
😎 Glad you enjoyed it, Hugo!
@@toyotauk - As a GRY owner myself, I'd be very interested if you're able to share any further details on the engine in this car!
Yes!
@ashymo3893 120 miles on a full tank. 12kg to fill at £10-12 per kg..
Looks like it'll never hit the showrooms
@@rickyjulian496 So only interesting for race cars (maybe).
Imagine Rowan Atkinson doing hardcore rally in his GR Yaris while playing his famous Mr. Bean character.
truly a legend!
He made my childhood and my adulthood awesome ❤
Class, just pure class.
Man's a living legend...!!!
Mr Rowan Atkinson. Always an absolute pleasure to see him
all those episodes of bean in his mini really makes you forget how much of a beast Rowan is in the track
Ahhhh
So relaxing to know that you are alive
you are living legend❤💪
I wish he would do more content. I’ve been a fan of his since I was a small child. Love him.
Atkinson is a legend💪🏾
He really is. What a fuckn treasure!
Legend and a car enthusiast! Good interview.
the fact that rowan is an actor, surprised he knows his cars and stuff
Yeah, Rowan is a real petrol-head. Pretty sure he still has his own HGV license, too. Just for the fun of it.
He crashed a Mclaren F1 back in the day, he loves his cars and drives them!
@@nate_river_ I like trucking and I like to truck!! 🙂(Not the nine o'clock news)
@@MagicAyrtonforever Yep! If you don't like trucking, tough luck! 😉
He did a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Newcastle. 1975, he did an MSc in Electrical Engineering at The Queen's College, Oxford. His MSc thesis, published in 1978, was about control systems
rowan atkinson is such an amazing human being, he was bullied heavily at youth for his looks, and he had a stuttering problem, mental breakdowns, but he over came all that and became who he is today.
ladies and gentlemen, give an applause for top 5 Top Gear's Stars In A Reasonably Priced Car, ROWAN ATKINSON
And get 1st place
this is amazing omg
I absolutely loved this! Thank you Toyota and Rowan for demonstrating the benefits of hydrogen fuels in a beast like the GR Yaris H2 Concept!
Jul 17, 2023 It's the cost of the hydrogen fuel itself, which in California is generally priced at about $25 per kilogram. At that price point, it would cost about $135 to fill up a standard car.
@@kylereese4822 Nope, it's $16.51 per kilogram, and with efficiency of about 75 MPGe (average of around 450 miles per fill-up), it's just barely more expensive than ICE. Fuel Cost is a very minor problem. Availability is the bigger problem unless you live and drive near the fuel sources.
@@sqlevolicious volume is the issue. That car shown in this video has a range of about 200 km only and the whole back side of the car is the H2 tank. So you can only seat 2 people in the car and have no trunk. This is not feasible for anything but as a concept or for racing.
He is not a genius in just comedy. A genius in driving too ❤💐
and in RACISM
Where’s Teddy??
😁 mad respect for Rowan and for Toyota for bringing this technology to Motorsport !
😎
He's waiting at the box...🐻
As long as Baldrick is not his mechanic...
@@toyotaukI am rooting for you Toyota. Go forward with this Hydrogen technology and be head to head with the EVs. Save that automotive emotion.
@@dr.md.raihanali5553 Most hydrogen fueling stations now days dispense compressed hydrogen gas at 5,000 psi and 10,000 psi or at both pressures.
As Rowan Atkinson himself said the combustion engine still has something to give. A top gear star in a reasonably priced vehicle and absolute Chad. Glad he's the one to drive the hydrogen powered yaris at GoodWood FoS.
Yeah wealthy actors can still play with it but it's not the future of cars.
@@manu.yt25 what is then?
@@slevingaius Electric quite obviously. Even synthetic fuel has a better chance than hydrogen though.
Jul 17, 2023It's the cost of the hydrogen fuel itself, which in California is generally priced at about $25 per kilogram. At that price point, it would cost about $135 to fill up a standard car.
Yeah, him a free paid promoting a dead end technology. Seems some at Toyota are desperate to make Hydrogen a thing, when it never going to be a thing.
Love this man , an absolute legend . Cars are just cars
@@crispindry2815 exactly . 4 wheels going from A to B . They all do the same thing transporting people .
Vehicles is vehicles
Just like Japan, the UK is ideal for hydrogen power
I get it
I get it
Yeah you right
Lol
What's the point. Using electricity to create hydrogen that you have to transport to where it's needed. It would be much more efficient just to use the electricity directly.
How good is Rowan ❤.. Also am much more on board with hydrogen!
The fuel cell itself was carried over from the Toyota Mirai hydrogen-electric road car.
Most hydrogen fueling stations now days dispense compressed hydrogen gas at 5,000 psi and 10,000 psi or at both pressures. Under or behind the rear seat or between the front seats..
@@kylereese4822 bloody hell…. So a bomb essentially 🤔
Rowan is such a gentleman. And he loves cars. And he's educated, smart, and articulate. Glad to seem him at Goodwood, wish I had been there.
fuck, listening to rowan speak about cars and with such enthusiasm just puts a fucking fat smile on my face.
mr bean got a upgrade
And he's not on the roof this time
No man says BOB better than Rowan. Also he’s a fabulous driver apart from when he wrote of his mclaren f1
This is the way for ALL cars to go in the future
luckily not. Hydrogen is too inefficient to use as a fuel in cars which makes it too expensive so nobody is gonna use it outside of rich peoples performance cars.
No it isnt, this car is hydrogen combustion. Hydrogen fuel cells are like 2x more efficient, hydrogen combustion also has terrible range and power and much less energy dense than gasoline.
since his days in Mr Bean he was an absolute great driver, rewatching the show as a grown up, made me realize how good hhe managed that mini on the show
..and when he talks about things that matter he‘s even better ! He is a really cool guy !
If I'm not mistaken the newer GR Yaris Hybrid (when tuned) can already go from flat to 100kmph in 3,5 seconds (correct me if wrong), so I'm definitely all ears what this can pull off!
Please bring this to market Toyota
Does it have an Atkinson engine too? ;)
Long live fun combustion engines!
Even after all these years, I still find it weird to see and hear Mr Bean talk like a normal person
This is the future, where I work we already started making hydrogen combustion engines
Good.
It has to be the future. Can't stand battery EV
Hydrogen Combustion Engines make no sense. Make the calculation: ~1kWh x 13.000 miles x 290.000.000 cars = how many TWh of electricity needed per year? How much electricity does the US use right now? Do you really think we will double the electricity production, so people can keep driving ICE's?
no its already the past.
especially hydrogen combustion is dead before it even started due to its inefficiencies and pollution problems.
@@Pixelplanet5 well it clearly isn't
@cockmcballs4577 Yeah. There is already problems with roads because EV:s weight too much and cause damage.
Eletric infrastruckture can''t sustain lot of EV cars.
Its just a hoax
I love the toyota concept! I hope it's taken up by ALL the motoring categories. It's not very energy dense though, so F1 would have to bring back refueling, which would be awesome!
A similar H2 racing car had just run the Fuji 24 hours twice and maneged to race all 24 hours twice
Just a note: It's not dense per VOLUME
But Hydrogen is incredibly energy dense per WEIGHT.
Being a gas and not a liquid.
Can’t wait for Hydrogen to become mainstream. Far better than waiting for a battery to charge
@@RationalCreed that is not gonna happen in this way. The whole back of the car is the H2 tank to give the car a 200km range. This concept is not going to become much more efficient than this.
For mainstream cars there is no alternatives to the electric motor.
But there are several ways to power them, all of them include at least a small battery but then a range extender can be added, like a H2 fuel cell or even a gasoline power generator.
Toyota could blast the competion if they really tried to for instance by mass producing cheaper fuel cell vehicles (and adding a charging plug) and/or by forcing their mass production of their solid state batteries a lot earlier than 2027.
Anyone who’s owned and sold a Maclaren F1 that declares a GR Yaris a pocket rocket and a lot of fun and is a fellow owner is alright in my book 👍
His parents did a cracking job ... What a lovely humble human !
Bravissimo Toyota 👏🏻
Toyota missed a chance for not painting the Yaris citron yellow with the black bonnet.
And turn it into a Mini ripoff? This is a race car, for Pete's sake.
Mr Bean has stepped up from his yellow Mini, to the "Pocket rocket" Toyota GR Yaris H2 👍
Yellow? You mean green?
@@s2korpionic In most of the movies, Mr. Bean's Mini mustard yellow, but in some episodes Mini is lime green, but also in the cartoon. There are some episodes where Mini is orange. However, all have black bonnets. 👍
@@larszenthio1012 Do they all have Dunlop tires?
@@learjet1246 They are black and round and it says "DUNLOP" on the side. 😉👍
Ohhhh dear god thank you baby jesus ,, a manual with a clutch , i think i might cry 💛
We are seeing his engineering background coupled with vehicle enthusiasm. Love it
he is just driving it, not inventing it. he is mr.bean, not dr.rocket scientist.
@@charlesdegaulle2928 He has an engineering degree. Go check it out
I still call him Mr bean, and it's funny to me seeing him seriously and to hear him speak🙊
yet i love this man! got a big global reputation for a role playing someone he dislikes as he said himself on a interview because mr bean is the opposite of himself.
And this video really proofs that, he's a kind humble man who knows his stuff or let other people talk about things and listens to what he doesn't know
There are 4 famous people on this world today I would love to meet,
1-Rowan Atkinson
2/4 - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & Captain slow
Im from thailand 🇹🇭 i still remember his name mr bean😂😂😂
Mr. Bean as … The Stig
Great bloke. Rohan has a degree in electrical engineering, a degree in electronic engineering and a Masters in electrical engineering. So he knows what he’s talking about.
Yeah but he's clueless when it's question of comparing which energy makes more sense for the future, hydrogen has such a low efficiency when produced from electricity that it's like just wasting electricity, it won't go anywhere but yeah at least Rowan can pocket a juicy check and have fun on the track working for Toyota for a bit....
@@manu.yt25 I think the main point is that batteries aren't the answer to powering cars. And yes, hydrogen isn't the answer either.
@@PropanePete Your bieliefs are pretty wrong and will be proven wrong in a near future. Electric cars aren't perfect but their climate impact and energy use is way better than petrol cars, but yeah there's no point arguing against people EV fake news, time will demonstrate it by itself. Basically to summarize curent science knowledge : the future of cars is electric but the future of mobility is not cars.
No, he is an uninformed fool to think that Lithium-ion batteries contain many rare earth metals. Or was he paid by Toyota to spread that nonsense ...
@@manu.yt25 So Manu, in your "belief" (you said my beliefs are wrong), what is the future of mobility? I think you're a city dweller (no offence meant). I live 1600 km from the Capitol City of my State in a regional town and further west in the outback it can be several hundred km's between fuel stops, plus a lot of dirt roads. No trains and buses so what other than a car would I use for "mobility" in these regions and thousands of people travel in remote areas daily. I'm actually camped in the bush in a 4x4 diesel vehicle right now with an Elon Musk Starlink internet setup, no phone network out here.
What a legend
Rowan is a very humble man, respect🎉🎉
Big 👍 from Finland!
Keep doing a great job Toyota.
Now imagine we could retro fit this to classics
If you listen to the interview, it seems like it's possible. He's driving a standard ICE car with a modded ECU and it's injecting hydrogen.
Most hydrogen fueling stations now days dispense compressed hydrogen gas at 5,000 psi and 10,000 psi or at both pressures.
@@miketran4289 There's much more to the tank and fueling system, and upgraded seals all over. You don't want to drive the Hindenburg.
@@miketran4289 It's actually possible. They've actually retrofitted the classic AE86 Trueno car to run in hydrogen. You can search AE86 H2 Concept on the other Toyota Channel.
It is actually not possible, Toyota made the engine based on the gasonline version but it actually is a new engine.
Engineering Explained has some details on this and also why it is not feasible for daily use: ua-cam.com/video/3IPR50-soNA/v-deo.html
Rowan’s views should be listened to. He trained as an engineer and speaks sense.
The engineers at Tesla are trained as... engineers too...
@@channel4ferrets John Kerry has just admitted that if half the cars in America were electric the power supply would have to double in capacity. What do you think we would need to do in the UK?
@@5ebra1 If all cars in the US are electric, you only need 30% more power. When all cars are hydrogen, you need 90 to 150% more power. I don't know what John Kerry said but it's bull.
@@5ebra1 for the calculation: cars drive 13,000 miles a year on average, there are 290,000,000 cars in the US. Power consumption for EV's is 0,32kWh per mile on average. That makes 1,206TWh of power. Currently the US is using 4,000TWh of power.
@@5ebra1 For the UK: the UK currently uses around 300TWh of electricity in a year. There are 33,2 million cars on the road in the UK that drive 7.400 miles per year on average. So you would need 33.200.000 cars x 7.400 miles x 0,32 kWh = 78,6TWh of electricity in a year. That's a 26,2% increase. When driving a hydrogen car, that would be 78 to 130% increase in electricity consumption, depending on fuel cell or ICE on hydrogen.
Did you guys remember how he drove a "Yaris of his time" with him on the roof, sitting on a living room chair with a mop on his hands for break and a string for steering? Legend has it that, thats how he started driving at Goodwood. Officials had to tell him to sit inside the car.
Car, motor, fuel and driver: TOP
Only issue with H² ICE cars is that(as much as I like them)it's not as efficient when compared to a simpler fuel cell, burning it creates waste heat that drops range by a ton
Range being a key issue, as compressed H² takes a lot of storage space for the range you get, if they can work out a solid compound storage solution as they do with O² respirators on airplanes then that story might change
But it refilled much faster than fastest charging time of mass produced ev cars. Typical ev cars need 100% charge from near empty around 1 hour, and typical fast charge around 20-30 min. Current road going hydrogen cars like toyota mirai need around 5-7 minute from near empty to full. Hydrogen can be easily transported like fossile fuel does.
@@muhammadhanifkurnaen6689 yes the filtrate is fast, but the issue of space is a huge one, also thru no inherent fault of Hydrogen there simply is little infrastructure in places outside of California, even there there are limitations on availability
I do believe H² is the best solution in the long run, however not in its current form, we need to either graduate to concentrated hydrogen solids(compounds) or there will need to be fill stations essentially everywhere gas ones are so we can reduce the number of tanks & simply fill up much more often then already done. As example, the rear half of that GR Toyota is nothing but extra H² tanks, & during racing it needed to fill up more then an extra 20 times OVER it's conventionally fueled competitors IIRC, so it's simply not a viable solution the world over just yet, but inside of LA utilized in fuel cells, sure
Yeah thats true, I feel like it would be a good solution to racing though, allowing for quick refuel
@@benson4820 it is quick refills, just unfortunately a ton more of them, might make pit strategy more interesting though
You have to remember that hydrogen internal combustion engines are still in development stages. Also, most of the information on hydrogen engines is typically several years old. This Toyota for example has a pretty old prototype in it. The newest prototypes get nearly the same range as gasoline and reach efficiency levels of almost 70 percent with zero emissions.
It takes a lot of energy to separate out hydrogen - it's not "free for the picking." Storage and distribution is much more difficult than gasoline due to how small the hydrogen atom is - leaks will be common. It also has to be kept very cold and under high pressure to stay in liquid form, else range and storage are limited. I'm surprised that Atkinson took part in this - he's very bright and no doubt knows these issues, that it's not all rainbows and sunshine as it's being pitched.
he's getting paid well 😁
And don't forget that the ICE (whether powered by hydrogen or petrol) is in itself very inefficient. If Toyota would quit screwing around and build an electric Yaris I'd buy one. i have a Yaris Hybrid at the moment (there was nowhere near enough charging stations in Spain six years ago when I was shopping around for a new car but that is being resolved fairly quickly now) and I love it - but the hybrid is only a stopgap between ICE and electric, and I'd like my next car to be electric.
@@malcolmrose3361electric cars are still just cars
@@malcolmrose3361 This is a big scam that EV car manufacturers like to promote. Batteries take loads of energy to mine, manufacture and ultimately recycle. It'll be literally years before it ends up more efficient than any car with a lower manufacturing footprint. Assuming your electricity isn't coming from a fossil fuel plant anyway (and spain still uses plenty of fossil gas) And only if you drive it enough & keep it long enough for those benefits to be realised. (on the order of 100s of thousands of km)
@@jamaly77 Yes. They are. And your point is?
Im so glad Toyota have stood their ground and proving there's another path, that is more so, arguably better for the environment...
Yup. Agree, because rare earth mining causing lots of enviro.damage especially in corrupt countries
@@dinjil1488 Also, the amount of resources used to make H2 fuel, is better offset... And that also means, as a Choice , we can hear an engine!!! YES!
@@dinjil1488 No, he is an uninformed fool to think that Lithium-ion batteries contain many rare earth metals. Or was he paid by Toyota to spread that nonsense ...
Well spoken, humble, with surprising technical aptitude.
Considering that Rowan owns/owned a Mclaren F1, that's high praise for the GR Yaris. The more I see of this man, the more I like him lol
people know him as Mr Bean learn about his background you will be surprised. dudes abit modest
嬉しすぎる助っ人！！！！クルマ好きにとって切にトヨタが未来をとってほしい！！！！
エンジンをあっさり捨てたホンダや欧米メーカーにはハートがないからね
Interesting car concept, so much more fun to hear a car than a quiet electric car. I love Rowan Atkinson as an actor, i hope i meet him someday.
Its difficult to imagine a person more soothing and lovely than Rowan Atkinson. Not only is he highly intelligent and a raging petrolhead , but is also really handy behing the wheel of a car and prepared to use his platform for a viable alternative fuel that could potentially save the internal combustion engine!
There is no need to save the internal combustion engine.
@@Simon-dm8zv wow what an unintelligent thing to say! Explain urself.
@@jacobstaub6676 It’s very simple: Internal combustion engines are by far not efficient enough to play a mentionable role in lowering CO2 emissions.
@@Simon-dm8zv And electric cars are? With their suboptimal efficiency at highway speeds, and the fact that you need to ship their batteries around the world five times till they can be put into cars. Also, let's not forget that the electricity is still made in environmentally harmful ways, and the fact that most developed countries are running out of electricity, having to resort to burning more coal in order to supply the needs of the citizens. Moving swiftly back to batteries, recycling which is extremely difficult, and require a huge amount of highly toxic and highly dangerous materials to be mined from damn near slave labor in Africa (cobalt mines). And finally the fact that using the existing infrastructure that like it or not, we have already got around the internal combustion engine, and making it more clean, using hydrogen as a fuel, as opposed to traditional fossil fuels is way more efficient rather than totally reinventing the wheel (electric engine). I recognize that in city centers and urban areas electric cars might be sensible but as soon as you drive any further than 200 miles the entire electric car concept falters, and since that is still something that the vast majority of people do, getting rid of the combustion engine is simply not viable and extremely counter productive. Would you like me to go on?
@@jacobstaub6676 To be clear: hydrogen internal combustion engine cars are 5 times less efficient than an EV. No matter at what speed. So you need 5 times more electricity to drive the same distance. And you are worried about electricity for EVs not being fully renewable?!
Yes Toyota! Drop the damn ev's and go for hydrogen combustion engines & synthetic fuels!!! Absolutely love this, and what a legend Rowan Atkinson is!
As an American 🇺🇸 who just today toured Toyota's Auto Museum in Japan 🇯🇵 , I can't help but see Toyota is on the correct path.
I love my own EV's cheap fuel & ease on mechanicals, but most people in the world don't have:
-Attached garages.
-Luxury of extra charging time on road trips
-Personal safety while waiting at night 45 minutes+ in strange city.
Toyota's BEV + PHEV + HEV + ICE + Hydrogen strategy is pragmatic & rational.
It's not a strategy, it's not being able to focus on one strategy. It won't end well.
Sorry to have to tell you but Toyota is dropping the lot .. When your "Strategy" is to sell parts and service, BEVs throw a wrench into it! EVs do not allow you to screw your customers on parts and service ..
@@spencerbardell2180 I used to feel the same until buying a Range Extender 3 years ago.
Now I see that any 40 mile PHEV is a perfect 1-car solution:
-14,000 miles annually on cheap, clean residential electric power.
- combustion engine will last nearly forever on 1 annual service.
- Zero range anxiety.
- No need to adjust your life & schedule to your car's charging demands.
- Current infrastructure for petrol is globally universal.
We drove 24,000 miles last year on 25 gallons of petrol. One easy oil change that I did myself in 15 minutes.
I'm sold.
Different horses for different courses.
@@spencerbardell2180 you do know that you can still screw over customers with EVs right? and EVs still have a lot of mechanical parts and would still need to be serviced frequently, but a lot of it will be software based now.
@@donswier you do understand this thread is about idiocy of hydrogen, right? I agree with you with your methods.. I live in the Frozen Colonies and I am a fan of plug in hybrids as a transition method but I now drive a TESLAAAAA Model S and have ZERO regrets..
Hydrogen in roadcars has no future. Don't hate me for saying it, just take in the numbers and calculate what it would cost to drive one mile in a hydrogen driven (hEV or ICE) car vs an EV. It's no match. Facts don't care about feelings or successful car brands.
A legend driving a legendary revolution 🙌 👏
Rowan Atkinson should be part of the grand tour with the legendry trio
Madre Toyota, tutti gli appassionati di meccanica al mondo confidano in Te.❤
Good one! I also do believe that hydrogen is the future, the real clean and renewable fuel.
Based on what? Hydrogen is made from fossil fuels, or, for the 1% that is made from electricity, it takes so many kWh per kg that the CO2 per 100km is still more than gasoline, even from a clean grid like in BC, Canada. Its not a clean renewable fuel.
I'm glad no Reliant Robins were harmed in the making of this!
Give Rowen a classic yellow Mini and he'll beat the rest while changing his clothes and brushing his teeth🤣
Didn't know he had a GR, great choice, best car ive ever driven.
😎 Thanks Andrew! Is the GR Yaris your daily?
@@toyotauk it's my daily when I'm home at weekends, work away during the week.
Hasn't stopped me racking up 30,000~ miles in 18 months 😂 amazing little rocket 👍🏻.
Good stuff, any road trips planned this weekend Andrew?
@@toyotauk pretty much the story every weekend, hit the Hartside pass maybe, Buttertubs pass sometimes, Southern Scotland, decisions, decisions...it just eats up those tight, twisting British B-roads like nothing else 👌🏻
Hello mr atkinsson. i like your take on hydrogen and I feel that this is far better than electric cars.
You sir have given me and my family quit a few lafs iver the years So I salute you for that. And I remembered a collegue of mine i the north of sweden that could pass and have been misstakenly taken for mr been several times.
Thank you Mr Atkinson, keep sending out the message against EV's.
Technically, it's Toyota sending out the anti EV messages, they likely paid Atkinson and gave him a fact sheet to run from, and no doubt helped shape the anti EV Guardian article from a few weeks back too, he's too smart to actually believe hydrogen will solve green transportation, and knows the emissions and wasted energy from making hydrogen completely contradicts the 'clean motoring' schtick Toyota is pedalling.
Toyota's goal here is not to get you into a hydrogen car you can't afford to buy or fuel, it's to keep you out of an electric one you can. They want you to keep buying gasoline cars while waiting for the always 5 years away hydrogen economy to finally happen - it's been 5 years away since the 1970's.
Now this is sick! I was scared it had no engine.
Most hydrogen fueling stations now days dispense compressed hydrogen gas at 5,000 psi and 10,000 psi or at both pressures.
Liquefaction Gaseous hydrogen is liquefied by cooling it to below −253°C (−423°F).
liquefaction consumes more than 30% of the energy content of the hydrogen and is expensive.
@@kylereese4822 Interesting. Also most of it is made using coal or natural gas so its not helping the environment yet, I really hope we can figure out some better technology soon. Im not interested in hydrogen fuel cell cars those are just another boring EV.
most people tend to forget how good of a pilot rowan actually is
edit: corrected typo
I never knew that he knows so much about cars 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
No, he is an uninformed fool to think that Lithium-ion batteries contain many rare earth metals. Or was he paid by Toyota to spread that nonsense ...
He's a major car enthusiast and amateur racing driver. He knows what he's talking about.
He is a gentleman and his acting is fantastic😃
At the 2023 Le Man's Toyota had the hydrogen fuelled Corolla that did the Japanese 25hrs event earlier on in the year with the engine on display. Safe to say the whole event was focused on hydrogen and alternative synthetic fuels over BEV power. In 2026 Toyota will be putting a hydrogen combustion engine in the LMPH racing car and what usually gets developed at Le Mans ends up in your road car.
It won't get in your road car. One simple reason: just for the US only, we need 3700TWh of electricity for 290 million cars to run on hydrogen. Currently we produce around 4000TWh so we need to double our electricity production. If you don't believe me, look up the numbers. They are publicly available. It's simple: "kWh per mile" times "miles per year" times "cars on the road" and that number divided by 0.7 for the hydrogen electrolysis divided by 1,000,000,000 is the power needed in TWh. Can't make it any easier.
@@channel4ferrets Build more nuclear, boil more water with magic rocks
because you didnt know 98% of hydrogen now came from hydrocarbon(oil)
@@charlesdegaulle2928 nearly everything comes from hydrocarbon production including plastics for EV car exterior/interior panels, tyres and wiring.
@@bentullett6068 Good point. Thanks for clarifying that hydrogen cars won't use exterior/interior panels, tires, or wiring. lol like what.
Can't wait to see him put a sofa on top of the car and drive it
Holy Shit Mr. Bean can drive. :D
check him out on top gear
Don't mention the McLaren f1 😂
I’m so glad Toyota isn’t jumping completely on the EV bandwagon like everyone else. Hydrogen seems like a more realistic alternative to fossil fuels rather than giant lithium batteries.
I could totally see this guy hosting Top Gear :D
Hydrogen > EV
Yes, the price is, both for the fuel and the car itself.
Mr bean knows engineering OK lol
Yeah Oxford Graduate Electrical Engineering, He knows his stuff
@@abnfalcon3901 Yep, it's also not unheard of either. Dolph Lundgren even has a Masters in Chemical Engineering and won the Fulbright Scholarship to go to MIT for his PhD before he became a movie star.
@@x808drifter its more common in UK than USA. You get on tv with having good education not some random
Has he ever worked in engineering? If he thinks hydrogen is the answer he knows nothing about engineering 😢 so , No he hasn't!
@@spencerbardell2180 I think you need to research hydrogen. I don't work in engineering ethier
Direct injected hydrogen, just like we did with LPG, I wonder if existing LPG engines can be adapted to run on pure hydrogen without too much work.
I literally love Rowan Atkinson ❤
that guy doesnt age, a wonderful human being he is
Rowan Atkinson + Hydrogen car ? Best clip on the internet!!!