A group of 120 scientists, engineers and academics have penned an open letter calling on the Paris Olympics’ organizers to ditch Toyota’s Mirai as the official vehicle of the Games, saying the hydrogen-powered car undermines the event’s green credentials.
Cars that run on hydrogen emit zero carbon at the tailpipe, but 96% of the world’s hydrogen is still derived from fossil fuels like methane gas. That makes most hydrogen-powered cars much more polluting than battery electric vehicles, or EVs, and only marginally cleaner than traditional combustion engine cars.
Toyota is supplying the Game’s official fleet, which includes 500 Mirai cars and 10 coaches that run on hydrogen, as well as 1,150 EVs, to ferry athletes around. It says it will run the Mirais on hydrogen derived from water and organic matter, generated with renewable sources.
But the letter’s authors still oppose the car’s promotion, because in reality, consumers who buy the Mirai will almost certainly run it on hydrogen derived from planet-heating fossil fuels.
“We are writing to express our concern that Toyota’s promotion of a hydrogen car is scientifically misaligned with net-zero and will damage the reputation of the 2024 Games,” wrote the authors, who include scientists and engineers from the University of Cambridge, Oxford University and the University of Colorado.
“Opportunity remains to reroute, and we urge that you require Toyota to replace the Mirai with a Battery Electric Vehicle as the official Games vehicle.”
The Paris Olympics organizers are aiming to host the “greenest-ever Games,” hoping to halve the carbon footprint of the major sporting event, compared with levels in the 2010s. To do that, it will attempt to run the Games entirely on renewable energy.
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