Finally a good story for the mostly useless and infamously dangerous technology. Ukraine reports they have successfully deployed a Toyota hydrogen cell into Russian forces as a tactical explosive.

Ukrainian Forces use salvaged hydrogen fuel cell to decimate Russian position in Vovchansk

Toyota just a couple years ago had announced the design of a super light weight high density triple tank holding 5.6kg (670 megajoules) of hydrogen.

The fuel cell stack uses a solid polymer, as in the current Mirai, but has been made smaller and has fewer cells (330 instead of 370). Nonetheless, it sets a new record for specific power density at 5.4 kW/l (excluding end plates). Maximum power has thus risen from 114 kW to 128 kW.

That’s a lot of explosive danger, as Hindenburg might say. Who knew hydrogen tanks were so primed to be huge bombs?

Related: Hydrogen fueling stations, let alone distribution, are a total farce. Petroleum companies cruelly promoted hydrogen as a political tactic, knowing it was terrible for the environment, simply to slow or stop electric vehicle adoption.