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Toyota’s Plans to Mass-Build Fuel Cell SUVs and Pickup Trucks

Arsenij Percov — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:17:26 +0000

Toyota is doubling down on its investment in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. It plans to design lower-cost mass-market passenger cars and SUVs. Later, it desires to push the technology into buses and trucks. Toyota already has one hydrogen fuel cell passenger car called Mirai. Currently, the manufacturer is working on the improvement of the vehicle. The […]

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Toyota Mirai Offers the Most Zero-Emissions Miles

Benji Jerew — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:43:07 +0000

Fall 2016, Toyota North America plans to officially launch the world’s first full-production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV), the 2016 Toyota Mirai. Like all ZEVs (zero emissions vehicles), it generates no tailpipe emissions, just water vapor, since it is an FCV. Given that hydrogen fueling stations are in short supply, much like electric vehicle charging […]

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Toyota Mirai Coming to Japan and California

Benji Jerew — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 13:04:18 +0000

The 2016 Toyota Mirai, world’s first production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, will arrive in California and Japan dealers by the second half of 2015, along with a special perk, free hydrogen fuel for the duration of the lease! While none of the technologies in the Mirai are particularly new, Toyota put them together in a way […]

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Advancing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology – Toyota Opens Patent Vault

Benji Jerew — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:02:41 +0000

Over the last couple of decades, a lot of research and development money has been poured into hydrogen fuel cell technology, one form of clean transportation technology that Toyota has hedged its bets on, as opposed to battery electric vehicles. In fact, Toyota has gone so far as to say that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles […]

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Toyota Mirai is “The Future” of Toyota, Literally!

Benji Jerew — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:39:08 +0000

The culmination of decades of research and development, Toyota’s first mass-production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, the Toyota Mirai, will start deliveries next month in Japan. Far from being a hydrogen fuel cell conversion vehicle, the Toyota Mirai was built from the ground up as a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Twin 70 MPa hydrogen fuel tanks […]

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New Regulation in Japan Advancing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

Benji Jerew — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 16:09:19 +0000

While hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure seem to be an oddity outside Japan, the Japan Ministry of Economy is working hard to improve its chances. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV), like electric vehicles (EV), produce no emissions on their own. Pressurized hydrogen gas, stored in an on-board tank, is fed into the hydrogen fuel […]

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