James May properly drives his new car for the first time 

Bit touchy, nothing wrong with a bit of balance. Was about to say green Hydrogen should sort things out when we can produce enough of it. The bit about killing joggers was a gag.

Hi James, I work as a marine design engineer by trade, so I understand the issues with green drives and I am quite interested in fuel cell technology. One thing I can't help thinking, do you think Toyota may have missed a trick by not making it plug in with a commuter-scale battery in addition to the fuel cell and tanks? The two drivetrain types seem to be quite complementary: - Batteries are compatible with the household, lower energy varieties can stand up to more frequent use then fuel cells, and are efficient enough to chow down on costs and location inconvenience and workplace charging and use of them reduces demand on building H2 stations! - Fuel cells can accept hydrogen, a transferable gas that allows for scalable energy content and fast transfer from a major station for occasioanal long journeys, at the cost of lower efficiency. As H2 FC vehicles actually utilise small batteries anyway to help buffer the power output of the slow-throttling fuel cell, it would actually take that much more battery. If one conservatively assumes a high-durability chemistry at 8 kg / kWh and a daily range of 30 miles at 3 miles/kWh, that's about 80 kilos of battery at worst? Not much considering a Tesla has a battery typically about 500kg and the bigger battery displacing some tank volume in a rectilinear form. As you are someone who owns a Tesla (I think) as well as this car, I thought it'd be interesting to hear from you.

Lol the flowers bit is the best bit

James is not an influencer. He does not need Toyota's free car or freebies in general like the JWWs and Stupidcar Blondies of this world. Cheers, mate. Enjoy the vapour mobile.

I would love to try out the Mirai but I'm in Devon... There are no H2 stations about. Really need them rolled out across the country quickly otherwise I don't think H2 cars will take off here any time soon.

LOl =))

😂😂🤣🤣Loss of smell lol

😮😷 Poor Lucy!

covid is a fraud

Very funny, but I remember hearing that the "new car smell" is actually carcinogenic chemicals (e.g, glue) and some manufacturers actually air out new cars to rid new cars of that smell.

Yeah I'd watch a million of these. Keep making em!

He's been a "RU-vidr" for decades now. RU-vid is a platform not a way of making videos.

@@luigiwastaken the term youtuber refers to someone who creates content specifically for RU-vid in a professional, amateur or hobbyist capacity. RU-vid is a platform. Yes. But people specifically have careers based on said platform. Thus the term "youtuber" is born.

@@luigiwastaken Gonna be real with you Luig, pretty silly thing to say. No wonder everyone likes your brother more.

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat why is it silly to say? This format is literally no different than anything he's done in the past 15 years it's just that it was uploaded to RU-vid ...

Nothing against his mum though! ☝

Hahahaha

I spat my coffee reading this

You finished watching before the "be open minded and kind" bit.

You mean Richard Branston?

IF only it's Top Gear...🙂

Top gear wasn’t supposed to mature. Don’t get me wrong, I love matured content, but top gear was something else.

@@mariuscaminschi2742 James May's solo stuff was always like that too. The Cars of the People one comes to mind.

Affordable version

@@mariuscaminschi2742 Top Gear was mature. This is exactly what Top Gear was in it's original form, except this is more entertaining because it's James May. It was a car show that reviewed cars in detail. It was many years later that it evolved into the Top Gear most people know. :-)

You really need to follow "Regular car reviews" then 😅

He's brilliant.

Jeremy Clarkson has left the chat.

I can watch anything he stars in. 'James May ... Our Man in Japan' is still one of my favourites.

@@TheCronan I was gonna mention him myself. Dudes a genius

HP and torque are not relevant on such a vehicle. It's not meant for racing (as most cars aren't) Comfort and safety however are important, as it appears to be designed as a commuter car.

These days having no smell is a scary thing. You might want to stay at home for a while if you can't smell anything at all.

@@elimalinsky7069 Haha, that was my first thought as well, but then i figured if he had covid, Lucy would flip.

Newton meter

It's "not relevant" because he doesn't want to give a bad image. It's only 182hp. For £65k.

looooooooool such post 2020 joke

@@DobbieZ 2021

@@louisbeerreviews8964 2022 ^-^

@@azuresflames2473 20220

Does that mean he's not going to make another video, then?

I agree. To operate touchscreens and touch buttons successfully requires precise finger coordination and taking your eyes off the road for way too long. It'll get worse because I heard there's cars with touch buttons on the steering wheel. There's going to be lots of accidental touches and then more time with eyes off the road to undo what you've just accidentally touched.

I know😂. He’s right though.

Maybe you missed his cookery show.

James May: Our Man in Japan. Its pretty funny.

may, making ads

Is Hammond on Clarkson Island? Clarkson Island on youtube if you haven't seen it.

I wished the other two would appear in each other's shows. Not necessarily all together, but one episode with one of the trio

Yea but if gas goes away i feel most people who enjoy driving will probably go ev as they are simply the fastest road cars

Is there any R&D in hydrocarbon fuel cells? Turning petrol into electricty? What about R&D into synthetic fuels or biofuels?

I've always thought hydrogen vehicles should be the future, even since I saw James review the Honda Clarity on Top Gear.# They have all the convenience of petrol / diesel vehicles when it comes to refuelling, with all the environmental benefits of battery vehicles. Plus, as you mentioned, they probably use less energy and fewer resources in the manufacturing process...and won't cause the national grid to go into meltdown.

@@phantomechelon3628 Nothing has the energy density of hydrocarbons. Especially when you consider if we were to develop synthetic fuels we could actually invent hydrocarbons with even more energy density than kerosene.

@@RoScFan You're missing the point. We don't want...or need hydrocarbon fuels. They're a major reason we're in this environmental mess. Hydrogen on its own produces no harmful pollutants. Hence why fuel cell R&D needs to be pushed. At least until battery and charging technology has reached a point to make them more practical.

i'm just dying about the "b-" movie part, why b-?

@@ridgefrost because what top grade movie ever had a serial killer after joggers?!? Lol

“I got a women and a man, I think I will get a women next”

"Figurative joggers" only haha

That could be mistaken as a tally of all the pedestrians you've ran over.

Hahah... exactly. First thing I thought was that these tram lines don't appear too far apart. Now everyone would laugh at the farmer.

haha, fk yes xD

Kaleb would be proud

@@ChickenLegs-fp9py lol yes

Kaleb must have done that part of the field, they didn't want to show Jeremy's tram lines, because there wouldn't be any.

There are more affordable actions as well. Cycling for example is very cheap compared to cars.

James May Prog-Rock shirt collection for the win, it slowly goes out of style over 30+ years.

More please

LOL

His shirt is environmental friendly just like the car

best comment. Up you go sir.

Yeah, what’s up with the Eboladrome did they sell it? They need to get back to doing the original format of the shows ASAP!

@@mikeheissler9824 I don't think the old grandma will like it

@@mikeheissler9824 Grand tour team has announced that there'll only be specials from now on, maybe forever.

They needs to change the name and call it CoronaDrome🤣🤣

I'd like James to drive his Mirai to Chaddlignton once and see the looks of Jeremy and Kaleb

Slowvid?

That's how you make money - make and sell a lot of a thing with a lower per unit profit margin.

@@tonyclewes8 ferrari disagrees you can make money both ways. or you can be apple and do both at the same time, sell loads at insanse margins

@@manaspradhan8041 Ferrari do both, they make about as much money from keyrings and caps as cars

My guess was they charged more for the first Mirai to pay for R and D costs, then they could charge less for the finished product once they knew it was more road worthy

@@manaspradhan8041 Well Ferrari might but Aston Martin have struggled over the past few years

my buddy James here may have covid.......sheeeeet!!

@@ettorenamias Oh no! A 0.003% chance of death!

@@freddieparrydrums Sorry to ruin your fun mate, but percentage talk is always down playing it. Out of a million people, which there are quite a few in London, that 0.003% is 30 people. Now for me even one person dying would be objectively shocking and/or saddening. So i hope you understand that 30 people dying would be quite disastrous. Not trying to be annoying, but statistics are often tricky in the way they let us go over things so easily.

@@VNitrofrey "for me even one person dying would be objectively shocking" Utterly insane. What about the hundreds of millions who will die due to the economic crisis *caused by lockdowns that DON'T WORK?* The UN (who's incentive is to lowball it) says 300m people will starve in Africa alone due to the economic collapse. But you know, so long as one Londoner doesn't get a bad cold when they're already dying of cancer, that's all fine and dandy right? 80,000 excess cancer deaths due to the NHS closing doors and the insane backlog. Doesn't count right, because it's not the political virus. One life. Just one. Pathetic. You've been brainwashed.

@「 Deadpoppin 」 Anyone who still thinks this is about a virus is willfully ignorant. Anyone who doesn't know that this is about the economy, and covering for the insane ultra-Keynsian economic policies that have made complete collapse inevitable is just brainwashed. Ask yourself this - why is basic economics, one of the most useful subjects known to humanity, not taught in schools? Answer that and you'll discover the reason why lockdown brainwashing is happening.

seriously I forgot I was watching a RU-vid video. for a second I was thinking it was TG/GT

Problem is, that hydrogen is a fool's errand. At least if you're arguing about shifting to hydrogen, instead of fossil fuels (currently hydrogen is nothing but a fossil fuel actually), and will be for a very long time. It doesn't make sense to create green energy, and then waste it by creating hydrogen from electrolysis, as that same energy could be much better spent on charging your car or powering everything else in your home, including heating. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2EA4tDYwNYo.html

That was his OK BOOMER moment.

"Look at all the stuff" To go wrong!

He was going to get in an accident because he was anticipating the arrival of virtual woman.

I thought the same!!!! And what about the tram lines in 8 shape!! James, Jeremy and Richard are the best! Looking forward to have much more content from them

@@alvarojdn Caleb would be disappointed with the 8 shaped ones.

i learnt what are tramlines by watching jeremy farm on amazon

@@harshithsadhana7475 It was a reference to Clarkson's Farm!!

Sometimes it’s unavoidable to get those sort of “gooseneck” tramlines. With odd shaped fields, often ones with a diagonal edge, your set GPS A B lines,which are parallel to your original A B line, just position themselves to where your specific implement (for example a sprayer) sections will first turn on to minimise Over application and the only way to achieve this is by u turning. Particularly in this country where we have mainly smaller fields compared to places like America or Australia, it is somewhat less common to have a perfectly square field that gives you ‘perfect’ tramlines without u turns. However, some of the fields in the video where root vegetables or tuners (probably potatoes, carrots or sugar beet) so they had straight tramlines without any visible turns as you don’t bother planting the headlands as it’s too awkward to access the rows without damaging them and therefore don’t get the gooseneck tramlines. Sorry for the long comment, I got a bit carried away!

Best yes, most entertaining? Probably no. I think it get's entertaining when they "get in each other's hair".

"Hold my beer" ..Jeremy Clarkson

What about a 'mashup' show with James May and Edd China?

i think he’s the perfect person to transition onto RU-vid. many don’t fare too well from TV to RU-vid.

They all have their appeal and compliment each other well

So true

NO...No he couldn't. LOL he'll leave it to Kaleb and say he did it.

you can't unsee that now that you know

Was thinking the same thing LoL

now that sounds wrong on many level ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Why is this better than Tesla? I can charge a Renault Zoe at home for free. I can't do that with this Toyota.

Hydrogen Cars are dead on arrival. It's far less efficient to fill up the hydrogen cells and then convert them into electricity than it is to just use electricity from the get go

😂😂

Maybe the car just smells like him so he doesn't notice the smell

@@tobiasdierks bruh

Took the words right of my mouth 👃😂

Can’t be,his not Hysterical 😂

...only.

Not that hard when pretty much everyone else has given up.

@@simonhenry7867 Hang on a minute! Only the stations are missing and you'd be surprised how many fans the Mirai has!

after Scotty Kilmer :-)

@@simonhenry7867 Should there be more? I'm sure if others jumped on the bandwagon they'd get ignored, because James.

It's more lexus than a toyota

@@nrusimhanseshadri9993 Lexus IS Toyota. It's only a more luxurious line of cars... so it's not more a Lexus than Toyota. Yet you are correct that it is more like a lexus as the interior and the basis are of the more luxurious line as used in lexus'

@@legarambor I think he knows that

Yeah, I think they shot themselves in the foot with the styling of each generation Prius and the previous Mirai. I think most people wouldn't be seen dead in one and it has really harmed the uptake of EVs.

And gladly it's rear wheel drive since it shares it's platform with the Toyota Crown

Don't think they are making much on each but they are getting cheaper.

Sandy monroe was talking about a cool new tech the other day where they have these discs that look like a purple CD and they hit it with a lazer and hydrogen comes off them and can be used as a fuel source. The discs are totally inert without the lazer and are produces through like recycled sewer gasses or something. It was frickin unreal if that could be scaled

@@themeach011 some of the hydrogen stations produce a small amount of hydrogen themselves, passively, from the atmosphere around it.....

@@iainansell5930 I love the idea of those stations that produce right on site. It's just very either electricity hungry to produce or using natural gas to produce. Just like EV charging it really depends where the electricity is coming from if it's environmentally friendly or not. Every time you convert an energy source there are efficiency losses. So right now in ev will go farther on the electricity used to convert the hydrogen than a fuel cell vehicle can go using that hydrogen that is produced. In some ways it's similar to gas in that an ev can drive about 30 Miles just on the electricity that is needed to refine one gallon of gas. All the refining and processing requires large amounts of electricity so in some ways it makes more sense to just put that electricity straight into an ev rather than losing energy along the processing process. But Evs don't work for all applications so we need other technologies as well to cover all use cases.

@@iainansell5930 I did some calculations the other day. I can drive my EV about 500kms on 80kwh of power. It takes about 80kwh of power to make 2kgs of hydrogen. 2 kgs of hydrogen can drive you about 200kms in a fuel cell car.

What would you like them to 'get on with'?

@@FFVoyager the infrastructure. Building more hydrogen filling stations. Hes quoting James May. Did you even watch the video.

@@MrJ-ro1yr not gonna happen, its the most terrible way to move a car.

In fairness, you can't say that Hydrogen is a viable option in Germany, at best it's a viable option for _some_ , those that live close to certain bigger cities. But if you don't there are unreasonable gaps. The closest Hydrogen station to me is about 60-70 kilometres away

@@arrowmouse and nothing ever changes or changes faar too slowly because not enough people care, to say, drive 60km just to get a full tank, as it's really inconvenient, so the demand stays the same, and no new stations are built.

Do you have hydrogen fuelling stations in Holland?

@@zarakdurrani7584 yes, there are about 10 stations (range of the car is 600km and Holland is not so big), and more opening soon

For a second there i thought 'brought' was 'bought'

More like the three stooges 😂

@John James no, the thing is growing on service

@John James This one wont fall that far down

All the stuff they’d cut out or make a montage of in top gear basically

I would watch one of him just talking in fields flowers.

Is that what that meme is called

@@sonny5974 deep fried memes

this comment is uNNeCeSSaRY

bruh i was falling asleep and been woken up bc of this whyyyyyyyyyy

Doug already reviewed it quite some time ago

he is our messiah

@@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro I watch ur videos. Love your channeI

@@DyslexicMitochondria true

That's what happens when you aren't at the endpoint of developing a technology. Internal combustion engines have very little room left for improvement whereas electric and hydrogen powertrains do.

Haha same here

lambo tractor skids

Yes😂

also, the slowest. ;P

You've never read anything by Russell Bulgin, or LJK Setright then.

There is always someone who needs to comment on someone elses opinion with their own belief...

You can run it on the _get you home_ gas from pouring iron filings into concentrated sulphuric acid, a wee job for the kids.

That is indeed a problem. James said seven out of ten hydrogen stations are currently closed; if the one in Cobham closes as well he'll be stuck with a £65,000 garden ornament.

@@ChrisBLong he will set up a hydrogen filling station in front of his pub before that happens 😅

After reading your comment I tried to look online for stations in my part of Canada and all I could find were three locations, and none of them are within an hour’s drive from where I live 😢

That's becuase you need 1 million+ to build a station. And you can service 10 car total a day. Now remember fuel stations live off snack and coffee, Would you offer to take on the station and pay back the 1million in usual 8 year plus interest by selling 10 packets off overpriced crops a day... Or 100k rapid charger selling 25 full families with enough time to buy a 3 course meals.

The beard adds a whif of King Theoden

I thought he looked like Boromirai 😅😅😅

Electricity cable is much easier to be hooked to the existing grid than establishing a completely new hydrogen supply network

This is ofcourse way to expensive to do. For a garage/dealership owning a normal petrol pump is already not viable unless u exploid it big time. An ultra simpel fuell cell pump will set you back 1,6 miljoen euro's to start with. That is more then the building and tools cost on a typical garage

I shouldn't have said 99%. The worst EVs are ~75% efficient. Some Teslas are 90-94% efficient.

Toyota has not yet even placed Mirai's in all it's dealerships....

@@EUC-lid a Petrol car is less then 30% efficient...

An even worse problem is that 3/4 of the energy is lost when using electric power to produce hydrogen. Hydrogen is a very nice power-source, but not viable unless there's s surplus of power ... which we're unlikely to have until someone manages to create fusion power-plants.

@@phel21 it is a trade off for the quick refuelling like regular gasoline car

@@phel21 Actually it is very easy to have surplus green power and it is already happening. If the wind is blowing or the sun is shining (or both) and there is low consumption, you get excess power. Energy companies around the world pay their customers to use electricity because there is surplus power. There is talk in Australia about using giant solar farms in the desert to make electricity for green hydrogen. There is plenty of space for it. No need for science fiction.

But if we have solar panels at home using excess energy can't we produce hydrogen through electrolysis? Another question would be, how to store and pump it?

@@surecom12 it will not be much costly but solar panels are costly and you will need lots of solar panels

Hydrogen is a highly reactive unstable atom. There have been many plants that exploded. That is why Hydrogen isn't fully out yet. They couldn't store it properly.

@@makemap they can store it now without a hassle. It costs money and there is nobody lobbying it which is the problem

@@SzabeeHUN you mean nobody prepared to pay for it. Government have gone cold now the EV industry is building its own infrastructure,, universities have done the maths and can't see viability,, companies can't see how they can make a profit.

@@makemap Lithium isn't really any better, and it's not one of the most plentiful elements in the universe.

@@n8pls543 Lithium is actually quite worse. You can actually create hydrogen from water by electrolysis so there's ample supply in the long run. Lithium cobalt etc are very limited.

used to always love hammond then suddenly one day i ended up liking mays segments more and more now ill watch anything hes doing

@@tobicain7816 I have the same story :D

I thought that too. The whole video works together so well and culminates in a beautiful message.

It had me expecting the cut away to the audience at the end

I've got a buck, what can we get May to review with that?

Polestar? Or electric motorcycle

I'm so bummed out, i want this car here in Germany, but nobody cares about H2 here and therefore no infrastructure gets built. Sad.

A few years ago we have, on average, about 10 working hydrogen stations in the UK. Now we have, er, 8. Yep it's going down.

@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 Germany has the second biggest H2 network outside of Japan- or third, if you consider Califonia a country, so it's a surprise.

Why don't Toyota setup hydrogen pumps at dealership for public use? Would be a positive start.

@@stewdean Yeah and a detriment to the state of H2 infrastructure worldwide. The only H2 sources for customers are probably in the big population centres like Munich, Berlin or NRW.

You didn’t seriously think James gives up on hydrogen fuel cell cars that easily, did you? He even made a segment on Top Gear in 2009 on the Honda Clarity, where he said that only hydrogen fuel cells allow us to use cars like we use petrol cars today, unlike battery electric vehicles. James has always been fascinated by the idea that you can just fill your car up in 3 minutes, drive 600+ miles, and all you leave behind is a trail of water drops.

@@KevinKickChannel Where do you get 600+ miles Toyota Mirai 2021 only has 400 miles and that's because they made it more aerodynamic but reduced the space in the rear passenger seat

@@lillypichu4566 it's conceptual. If H2 had 10% of the R&D money EVs have it would rapidly crush those numbers. So it's a matter of when, not if.

@@carck6442 so is not real

@@lillypichu4566 as the original commenter said, it's an idea. It's what H2 will be capable of in the future

Yes, I thought that too.

I thought Billy Connolly.

Have you ever seen them together? Maybe they're the same person

I expect he shares the same dislike for Robbie Williams as well..

James May has been looking like various types of aging rock stars for 15 years.

Japan is actually quite far ahead in hydrogen electric cars, they have recognized they cant meet the needs on charging if all of them would go battery electric + battery electric is wasteful. Both of these facts are obvious and should lead to an end of "race of technology to make a better future", because this race is just money making, otherwise we would have gone this was long ago.

Myself as well. But being very rural, that wont happen for a long, long, long time.

@@bygodfreeman yea I’ve heard each station costs upwards of 2-3 million which is probably the biggest issue with hydrogen right now.

toyota, kia/hyundai and honda could put their money where their mouth is and install a hydrogen pump at their dealerships........ nissan did for ev stations... i know its more expensive... but if companie like esso and bp see a market for it, they'll start installing them... it didn't take long for LPG infrastructure to take off did it?

There is one near me but it's kind of private, it's for city buses in my city. I'm not sure they'll let me buy some of their hydrogen.

Also, hydrogen production isn't really carbon friendly