You’re correct - I meant to refer to blue rather than grey hydrogen.

I bet they engineered in a tiny dip as a subtle troll.

No worries - Hyundai are not helping themselves with that site design.

They’ve fixed it. Peak torque used to be at 6400 RPM, and it’s now at 3700 RPM.

The anode consumption can in theory be resolved in a similar manner to steel’s reducing agent issue, much like the HYBRIT process exists for steel (and should really be scaled up as quickly as green hydrogen can be brought online - even using grey hydrogen I believe it produces less carbon-intensive steel than a…

You’re thinking of the wrong Ioniq - yes, it’s confusing. The one they’re going to be offering for subscription is the Ioniq 5 pictured at the top of the article. The Ioniq 5 most closely competes with the VW ID.4 (58 or 77kW.h battery, 800V charging, 260-290 mile estimated range, 225-320 HP).

I reckon I can hit 60 about as quick as a Crosstrek though.

Subaru Crosstrek 0-60:

Aluminium is really good in terms of its stiffness per weight because it’s much less dense than steel, so parts can be made thicker, and stiffness is proportional to the cube of the thickness. Which makes it really good for planes (and is also why composites are making such headway in aviation).

Your last two paragraphs do nothing to rebut the fact that aluminium has far more embodied energy and embodied CO2 than steel. That’s the issue - what requires the least energy to produce, and what has the least embodied CO2. And if you’re comparing aluminium and steel, steel wins on both counts, even now. It doesn’t…

I reckon I was paying half of that for two hours a week...

Counterpoint: It’s more commercially-viable than increasing the scale of aluminium production to displace steel in automotive manufacture. Green steel has been costed at approximately a 30 percent premium (at most) over conventional steel…

No denying that.

Turns out we won’t be getting this European car by the look of it though. BOO!

It’s the economically sensible thing to do (interestingly, even hydro-powered aluminium production seems to generate more CO2 per ton of product than steel does on average).

But there’s not enough aluminium already in circulation to make all of our cars from recycled metal. And production of virgin aluminium generates huge amounts of CO2 (average for all aluminium, both virgin and recycled is 11.5 tons per ton of metal and 2-4 tons even when using hydro power, compared to 1.9 tons per ton…

But it really isn’t. The global average for steel is 1.9 tons of CO2 per ton of steel produced:

That is true of conventional steel production. But it’s not a necessary part of the process - hydrogen can be used to reduce iron ore to iron using the HYBRIT process: (https://www.miningmonthly.com/partners/partner-content/1383437/hydrogen-could-hybrit-really-halt-coal-use-in-steel-making)

Frequency-modulated continuous-wave LIDAR looks promising as a sensor technology for AVs: