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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 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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Fuel Cell Vehicle Myth Two – Fuel Cell Vehicles are Expensive

Benji Jerew — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:58:13 +0000

Here on The Green Optimistic, we love practically anything that reduces our footprint in the environment, such as hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, but there is plenty of misinformation out there that make people think they’re a bad deal. Maybe you heard once that a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, such as the upcoming Toyota FCV, cost […]

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Solar Powered Hydrogen Fuel – The Rebellion

Benji Jerew — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:07:25 +0000

Hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicles have one very important thing in common: they’re both emissions-free sort of. While it’s true that hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicles do not generate any emissions in themselves, their upstream emissions cannot be ignored. Really, it all depends on where the power grid gets its electricity […]

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Mercedes-Benz’s Ener-G-Force Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Mike Sandru — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:41:07 +0000

The 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show brought some great new concepts this year. One of them is the Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force. Big and bully, like the oversized Hummers, the G-Force only looks like a notorious SUV. This model is equipped with fuel cells, whose only emission is water. Following the lines of the G-class models, back […]

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Honda FCX Clarity to Also Be Used as Power Source for Homes

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:15:50 +0000

With the advent of smart grids, the world will be a better place, at least in what concerns power outages. Electric cars will take over the role of buffering the extra electricity and, when in their garages, they will be able to even cope with big outages. Honda, the company that designed the FCX Clarity, […]

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Mercedes Benz Starts Leasing B-Class Fuel Cell Vehicles In Europe and US

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:07:41 +0000

Only to the visually-impaired it may look like fuel cells and electric cars don't enjoy success nowadays. Daimler AG has just started a pilot program of leasing Mercedes-Benz hydrogen fuel cell cars to 5 to 15 users in the US, to see how their car acts in real life conditions and how people receive them. To me this looks like a postpone of the real thing, just like GM did to EV1.

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Honda Planning to Market Solar Powered Home-Based Hydrogen Refueler Starting 2015

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:09:14 +0000

Having your hydrogen fuel cell car powered by some solar panels in your own backyard looks like a dream not able to come true in a lifetime for some. For others, this is already a reality and a long-term plan. Honda, GM, Toyota, Mercedes and several other car manufacturers, joined by fuel providers including Shell, look at home-based refueling stations quite seriously and plan to have the first ones implemented in as little as five years.

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Yarga YoYo: Concept Fuel Cell Vehicle Inspired by Dean Kamen's Segway

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:51:31 +0000

There are some ideas that could evolve no matter what technology is used to apply them. For example, James Yarger, an industrial designer, thought of a concept vehicle made from recyclable materials, inspired by Dean Kamen's Segway.

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Mercedes Releasing Fuel Cell Powered B-Klasse, Pessimistic About Diesel Future

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:59:45 +0000

Recently, Thomas Weber, Head of R&D at Mercedes, said that the upcoming Euro 6 is expected to skyrocket the prices of diesel cars. This is because the automakers are forced to use expensive technology in making the new fine injectors and filters, and this is going to be felt in the customers' pockets.

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Home Made Refueling Station for Honda FCX Clarity

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:26 +0000

It is essentially an electric car. Everyone's talking about their fears that they don't have hydrogen refueling stations around, forgetting that we have water all around us.

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