Posted on 06/30/2015 3:29:17 PM PDT by ckilmer
It’s Official! Toyota Mirai Goes the Distance
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Sets Record
312 miles = Longest Driving Range of ANY Zero Emission Vehicle on the Market
Toyota announced at the Aspen Ideas Festival that the new Toyota Mirai will offer an EPA-estimated 67 miles per gallon equivalent city/highway/combined, and an EPA-estimated driving range rating of 312 miles on a single fill of hydrogen – the longest driving range of any zero emissions vehicle on the market. (Photo: Business Wire)
Toyota announced at the Aspen Ideas Festival that the new Toyota Mirai will offer an EPA-estimated 67 miles per gallon equivalent city/highway/combined, and an EPA-estimated driving range rating of 312 miles on a single fill of hydrogen – the longest driving range of any zero emissions vehicle on the market. (Photo: Business Wire)
Toyota announced at the Aspen Ideas Festival that the new Toyota Mirai will offer an EPA-estimated 67 miles per gallon equivalent city/highway/combined, and an EPA-estimated driving range rating of 312 miles on a single fill of hydrogen – the longest driving range of any zero emissions vehicle on the market. (Photo: Business Wire) Toyota announced at the Aspen Ideas Festival that the new Toyota Mirai will offer an EPA-estimated 67 miles per gallon equivalent city/highway/combined, and an EPA-estimated driving range rating of 312 miles on a single fill of hydrogen – the longest driving range of any zero emissions vehicle on the market. (Photo: Business Wire)
June 30, 2015 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
ASPEN, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The future of mobility is ready to hit the road – and keep going…and going…and going.
“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.”
The new Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle will offer an EPA-estimated 67 miles per gallon equivalent (mpge) city/highway/combined when it hits dealerships in California this fall, and an EPA-estimated driving range rating of 312 miles on a single fill of hydrogen.
Toyota North America CEO Jim Lentz announced the EPA-estimated performance figures at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Mirai is the only zero emission electric vehicle on the market that tops the 300 mile range milestone.
“Toyota realized in the early 90’s that electrification was key to the future of the automobile,” said Lentz. “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.”
The world’s first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, the Toyota Mirai is a four-door, mid-size sedan with performance that fully competes with traditional internal combustion engines – but uses no gasoline. Instead, Mirai creates electricity on demand using hydrogen, oxygen and a fuel cell, and emits nothing but water vapor in the process.
Toyota has matched the Mirai’s impressive performance with an equally impressive ownership experience. In addition to outstanding range and fuel economy, Mirai drivers will enjoy a comprehensive, ownership experience offering a range of world-class services, including:
Three years’ worth of complimentary fuel[1] Three years complimentary Safety Connect and Entune, including hydrogen station finder app. Three years of 24/7 customer call support. Mirai Complimentary Rental Experience for seven days per year for three years.[2] ToyotaCare[3], our standard no cost service plan and roadside assistance, is enhanced for Mirai and offers: No cost scheduled maintenance for three years, or 35,000 miles, whichever comes first[4]. No cost enhanced roadside assistance[5] for three years, regardless of mileage, including expedited towing service and trip interruption reimbursement at a maximum of $500 per day for up to 5 days per incident.[6] 8-year/100,000-mile warranty on key fuel cell vehicle components including the FC stack and power control unit; FC hydrogen tanks; hybrid battery pack and ECU; FC air compressor, boost converter and ECU; hybrid control module (power management control module); and hydrogen fueling ECU.[4]
Beginning this summer, California customers can request a Mirai by visiting www.toyota.com/mirai. Customers are encouraged to visit www.toyota.com/mirai today to sign up for more information and notification of exact Mirai order request launch timing in the coming months.
The concept of hydrogen being an economic fuel source is just silly. Only by taking money from others not using the fuel can it be competitively priced.
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I don’t disagree with you even a little bit.
The only important thing here is how much progress has been made and how much money is behind further R&D.
It looks very much like the Japanese have understood that they can’t afford to be importing oil anymore. Their debt is too high.
Toyota’s determined push looks very much like national policy. That means that the money for R&D will be large constant and determined. 10 years from now after multibillion dollar investments-—Toyota still may have only closed the gap with internal combustion engines by 50% or more likely —the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines will have doubled. But Toyota will continue to push for ever better fuel cell cars.
Only if you want very expensive hydrogen, instead of regular expensive. ~95% of all hydrogen produced in the US is steam-reformed natural gas. We use a lot of hydrogen in modern refineries.
http://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-natural-gas-reforming
And you can have any color you want including ‘black’.
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Nah you got the ford quote wrong.
It goes.
You can have any color you want as long as its black.
Agreed. However, fuel-cells have been around a long time. In 1964 I saw a toy car with a fuel cell that started running around if you poured a dry martini into its cell.
That’s fine—I’ll take a black one, long as I have an H2 filling station locally...
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Not likely for now if you don’t live in certain neighborhoods in california
I can’t find the temperature, but it’s very cold.
On Japanese national policy —you have to watch the events in the south china sea. the chinese are intent on controlling that sea and therefor controlling the supply of oil to Japan. The chinese figure to create a choke point.
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The Japanese are starting to collaborate with all parties to stop Chinese expansion into the south china sea. I’d also bet that Toyota’s efforts to create a fuel cell car that will wean the Japanese off internal combustion engines and therefor oil—is also a part of their national strategy.
The cool thing is that the consumer in ten years is going to be treated to a real horse race between different power trains which will bring down costs all around.
What amazed me when I read about the Mirai was how much this is Akio Toyoda's baby. He really believes in it, like a visionary.
and with a new engine LIBERALS HATE.... http://www.angellabsllc.com/mytengine.html
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Stories on the mytengine have been posted several times on FR.
It really looks cool.
But its been around for ten years.
What I don’t understand is why its going nowhere.
Why isn’t this engine being adopted all over the place
I was amazed at how committed Akio Toyoda is to this, to the exclusion of electric cars. He’s jumping right from Prius to this.
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imho its national policy. On the one hand Japan can’t afford to import oil anymore. They’ve borrowed too much.
On the other hand the chinese are busy trying to create a choke point in the south china sea to Japanese oil supplies from the middle east. that would be intolerable to the japanese.
they know from experience with rare earths —that they can’t trust the chinese at all.
And China’s a tough market for the Japanese to sell to.
Wouldn’t it be great if Japan scored a breakthrough with methane hydrates.
And neither should anyone else.
What I don’t understand is why its going nowhere.
Why isn’t this engine being adopted all over the place
Easy... Fascism.. oil companys, makers of reciprocal engines (ALL THE PARTS).. and related systems.. the entire (current) automotive infrastructure..
automotive POLITICS... cars, trucks, machines... and much more.. electric cars, fuel cells.. other Rube Goldbergs..
Imagine a boat engine the size of an electric trolling rig.. drones.. personal jet pack that actually works.. and is good on fuel.... small generators that could provide power for a whole house inexpensively.. AND MORE...
This motor could change EVERYTHING... and “they” know it..
Don't confuse the issue with facts.
Except for stop and creep city driving, a Yaris will get the same mileage as a Prius. With 1/4 the repair costs. I make a lot of money fixing Prius. (Prii?) If the hydrogen is refined from natural gas there are CO2 emissions somewhere. Electrolysis, same story.
I’m not buying your arguement.
A light powerful incredibly fuel efficient engine would be totally in the interests of the big car companies. they would buy it in a heart beat if it met all the specs advertised.
same is the case with electric car batteries. if someone came up with an electric car battery that could go 500 miles and be recharged in 15 minutes and take a 50k charges—tesla would throw a billion bucks at them..
That analogy is about how good the mytengine promises. that its not already ubiquitous means there’s something wrong with the engine.
the shame here is that the developers have not figured out how to get the money and expertise to fix the problems with the engine.
OR................. I’m right..
Agreed. However, fuel-cells have been around a long time. In 1964 I saw a toy car with a fuel cell that started running around if you poured a dry martini into its cell.
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The character of the modern world is that not only is the world changing but the rate of change is accelerating.
Think ever faster better smarter computers, 3d printing, simulations, material research and advanced robotics.
Probably a better bet long-term than battery power, but plenty of problems.
Daimler, Ford, Nissan, Toyota, GM, and others have spent years and billions on fuel cells. Actual cost of the vehicles is said to be “astronomical”.
Link only:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkanellos/2013/01/30/why-hydrogen-cars-could-still-be-the-future/
I’ve been involved in research in all those areas, except perhaps for 3-D printing. That car I mentioned was part of a research project.
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