Toyota on Monday officially unveiled its fuel cell sedan in an Internet video featuring Toyota Motor Corporation’s president and CEO Akio Toyoda. The announcement comes in advance of the Los Angeles Auto Show Nov. 21-30. The new sedan, dubbed “Mirai” — which means “future” in Japanese — can travel up to 300 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, refuel in less than five minutes, and emit only water vapor. To ensure that its drivers actually can fuel up, Toyota announced that it will help establish 12 new hydrogen fueling stations in five states.
With the exception of natural gas all "green" cars use the power grid as their power source. That is the fundemental problem with depending on electricity as a power source. Unless someone invents a method to create hydrogen without electricity these cars will never be clean.
Having said that, a hydrogen-based car is better than filling up a car with batteries and traveling only 40 miles per charge. I believe the future is hydrogen, but until the backend production problem is solved it will not be green.
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Toyota’s Mirai Aims to Kick Fuel-Cell Tech Into High Gear
Posted by: Peter Suciu November 17, 2014 11:58 AMToyota on Monday officially unveiled its fuel cell sedan in an Internet video featuring Toyota Motor Corporation’s president and CEO Akio Toyoda. The announcement comes in advance of the Los Angeles Auto Show Nov. 21-30. The new sedan, dubbed “Mirai” — which means “future” in Japanese — can travel up to 300 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, refuel in less than five minutes, and emit only water vapor. To ensure that its drivers actually can fuel up, Toyota announced that it will help establish 12 new hydrogen fueling stations in five states.
Having said that, a hydrogen-based car is better than filling up a car with batteries and traveling only 40 miles per charge. I believe the future is hydrogen, but until the backend production problem is solved it will not be green.