Rowan Atkinson drives hydrogen-powered Toyota GR Yaris H2 Concept at Goodwood 

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...

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

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.

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.

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

​@@danielthirgood1997that's what gave it away for me lol. And he Daily Drove/grocery ran that thing too!

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

Don't forget he was an engineer before he got into comedy.

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 RU-vid videos it's definitely more rational and scientific than it was with the clarkson/hammond/may trio... arguably at the expense of humor

😎 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).

To my surprise, he holds a degree in electrical engineering. Like John Cleese who is a actually a qualified lawyer.

Hes a national treasure

And he's not on the roof this time

ICE on hydrogen is for racecars only. Take the price of hydrogen and the efficiency of an internal combution engine and you soon realize it's 5x more expensive to drive than an EV.

@@channel4ferretsyes although, EV’s also have issues amongst themselves. We are far from ready to go full EV. From the weight of the vehicles and the dangers of that, the causes of batteries engulfing into flames, from the batteries we use (lithium ion) which is harmful to the environment as is when mining it/recycling it. Hydrogen seems to be a better option, or better yet synthetic fuels.

Until next year , the price is going to match petrol prices then electric will be pointless / stupid but they knew that all along !

@@spikypikachu1162 you forgot how mention how long you need to sit to recharge, vs a fuel pump that takes a few minutes and you are back on the move.

Electrics are boring. Where's the sound?!

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 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.

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

and in RACISM

😎

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.

And get 1st place

He really is. What a fuckn treasure!

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 🤔

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.

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.

@@evolicious 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.

@@crispindry2815 exactly . 4 wheels going from A to B . They all do the same thing transporting people .

Vehicles is vehicles

Toyota bZ4X

@@Pixel_FX That's what I say. They don't build EV's because they want to but because they have to.

@@channel4ferrets It's called not putting all your eggs in one basket, and surely the world's most profitable car maker has some ideas about how it should be done...

@@MysteriousFigureexactly…the boys on the fully charged show channel are crying 😅😅😂😂

I really hope Toyota can convince the world that the future is not on EV's, so i can continue to drive my 22 years old Corolla 😁

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. 😉👍

And turn it into a Mini ripoff? This is a race car, for Pete's sake.

Im from thailand 🇹🇭 i still remember his name mr bean😂😂😂

Mr. Bean as … The Stig

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3IPR50-soNA.html

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.

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.

@@MrPropanePete 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.

check him out on top gear

Don't mention the McLaren f1 😂

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.

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