Ok here's a female mechanic, Jacky Birdsall. She evolved beyond a mere mechanic to a pretty respectable and senior role within Toyota's most secure and secretive research and development section in North America (ie California):
https://youtu.be/hghIckc7nrY
Now recently on this blog we mentioned Tesla cars and I vaguely recall reading a Musk comment somewhere about hydrogen cars being stupid. I could be misquoting him there but even 'Physics Girl's, whose YouTube channel I occasionally watch, was ignorant (as I) regarding hydrogen cars.
Toyota approached physics girl to get the word out about their car. Like myself, physics girl thought the hydrogen would be burned. In fact, this is how hydrogen vehicles were quite a few years ago last time I checked. They just split some hydrogen from water, running electricity through it, pretty simple process, and then burned the hydrogen. There were some successful vehicles like this, basically running on water, however it never really took off. Public liability/ danger from exploding hydrogen (highly explosive) has been an issue since the first zeppelins started exploding (google hydrogen zeppelins, pretty interesting).
Perhaps this is why Musk thought hydrogen cars are dumb (if indeed he did actually say that).
However Toyota is working on some top secret new technology, mixing hydrogen and air to recharge an electric battery, not actually burning the hydrogen apparently. It looks pretty interesting. Maybe I should buy shares in Toyota. Haven't started buying shares yet.
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