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Toyota’s new hydrogen-powered car has a record-setting range
Business Insider ^ | 07/01/2015 | Graham Rapier

Posted on 07/01/2015 2:37:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Toyota has been very vocal about its lofty plans for the new Mirai.

After severing ties with Tesla in 2014, Toyota has shifted its focus toward fuel cells and away from all-electric cars.

On Wednesday, Toyota announced that the Mirai had achieved an EPA-estimated range of 312 miles. That’s the longest range of any zero-emission vehicle on the market today, including electric vehicles.

“Toyota realized in the early 90’s that electrification was key to the future of the automobile,” said Toyota’s North America CEO Jim Lentz in a statement

“Just as the Prius introduced hybrid-electric vehicles to millions of customers nearly twenty years ago, the Mirai is now poised to usher in a new era of efficient, hydrogen transportation.”

One major hurdle left for Toyota to surmount is the lack of hydrogen filling stations, which cost about $1 million each to build. According to the Department of Energy, there are only a dozen hydrogen filling stations nationwide, most of which are in California.

The 2016 Mirai is expected to come with an initial price tag of $57,500 — less than initial estimates, and keeping the car much more affordable than its electric counterparts. (Tesla’s Model S starts at $69,900).

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: automakers; elonmusk; energy; globalwarminghoax; hfv; hydrogen; hydrogencar; invention; mirai; popefrancis; romancatholicism; tesla; toyota
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1 posted on 07/01/2015 2:37:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

2 years too late. Did they get that memo about fracking?


2 posted on 07/01/2015 2:39:36 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: SeekAndFind

3 posted on 07/01/2015 2:39:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Up Yours Marxists

I say let all technologies compete and keep the government out of choosing winners and losers

The Toyota Fuel Cell System (TFCS) moves the Mirai


4 posted on 07/01/2015 2:41:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And where in the hell do they get the hydrogen?


5 posted on 07/01/2015 2:43:07 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: SeekAndFind

My low emission diesel CDI will get 600 - 700 miles on a tank, depending on the mix of highway/city driving.


6 posted on 07/01/2015 2:45:24 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But it got GREAT mileage!

7 posted on 07/01/2015 2:47:01 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: Logical me
And where in the hell do they get the hydrogen?

That's easy.

Build a few more GW Nuclear plants and crack water with electricity. Ship H2 to refueling stations.

Should make all sortsa people happy!

:^)

8 posted on 07/01/2015 2:48:14 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Logical me

PS

I don’t have a problem at all with the above solution, especially if it gets us off Middle East oil and endless wars there.

Fracking just as good for said goal.

BUT, I have a feeling the average Enviro might be soiling his pants at the thought of massive numbers of Nuke plants spewing electrons to make Hydrogen gas...but it makes me feel good to think about how it will pain them


9 posted on 07/01/2015 2:50:37 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Logical me

Eventually, they may be able to produce it through solar power. If you build it near the ocean, you could scale up a production plant as large as you want.

Even if we get it from a barrel of oil, and I admit to being fanciful here and posting a hypothesis, it might be a more efficient use of oil to draw hydrogen from it and selling the hydrogen as fuel and using the by-products in other productive ways.


10 posted on 07/01/2015 2:51:32 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Logical me

What? Aren’t unicorn farts composed of almost pure hydrogen?


11 posted on 07/01/2015 2:53:00 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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RE: And where in the hell do they get the hydrogen?

According to this site:

http://www.fuelcells.org/base.cgim?template=hydrogen_basics

In nature, hydrogen is never found on its own; it is always combined into molecules with other elements, typically oxygen and carbon. Hydrogen can be extracted from virtually any hydrogen-containing compound, including both renewable and non-renewable resources.

Hydrogen gas is similar to natural gas in that it is lighter than air, so it rises and disperses quickly. Hydrogen is non-toxic and safe to breathe. Hydrogen is also odorless, colorless, and tasteless; since it cannot be odorized like natural gas, hydrogen detection and ventilation systems are employed. Like all fuels, hydrogen is flammable and must be handled properly.

In the U.S., hydrogen is transported safely through 700 miles of pipelines, and 70 million gallons of liquid hydrogen is transported annually by truck over U.S. highways without incident. Both indoor and outdoor hydrogen refueling stations are located in several dozen states and have safely dispensed compressed hydrogen for use in passenger vehicles, buses, trucks, forklifts, and other types of vehicles.


12 posted on 07/01/2015 2:53:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Logical me

See also here for a more technical discussion:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/electrol.html


13 posted on 07/01/2015 2:56:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Toyota Mirai...and Toyota's ugly designs continues.


14 posted on 07/01/2015 2:57:17 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...there are only a dozen hydrogen filling stations nationwide, most of which are in California.
Elon Musk derided the notion of large numbers of hydrogen vehicles.
15 posted on 07/01/2015 2:57:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Mirai emits water vapor, the number one global warming gas. That’s not zero emissions, that’s 100% greenhouse “pollution”, like that other plant food gas.


16 posted on 07/01/2015 3:02:59 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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....Toyota has shifted its focus toward fuel cells and away from all-electric cars. On Wednesday, Toyota announced that the Mirai had achieved an EPA-estimated range of 312 miles. That’s the longest range of any zero-emission vehicle on the market today, including electric vehicles....One major hurdle left for Toyota to surmount is the lack of hydrogen filling stations, which cost about $1 million each to build. According to the Department of Energy, there are only a dozen hydrogen filling stations nationwide, most of which are in California.

I sure hope they're no more than 311 miles apart!

17 posted on 07/01/2015 3:05:36 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Logical me
And where in the hell do they get the hydrogen?

Steam-reform Natural Gas. 95% of it is produced that way in the US.

http://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-natural-gas-reforming

When you look at all the energy losses to make the hydrogen, along with the required equipment, it is laughable to call it zero emissions and way more expensive than gasoline if not subsidized by Tax Payers.

http://inside.mines.edu/~jjechura/EnergyTech/07_Hydrogen_from_SMR.pdf

18 posted on 07/01/2015 3:08:54 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: SeekAndFind
Yep, technically feasible isn't the problem, aside from rockets, most the hydrogen produced in the US is used by the refinery industry. We have many refineries connected to hydrogen pipelines in my area.

The catch is, it isn't cheap.

19 posted on 07/01/2015 3:11:35 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Reeses

Exactly.


20 posted on 07/01/2015 3:14:43 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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