Toyota gaat zijn brandstofceltechniek gebruiken voor vrachtwagens

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Toyota lijkt de geflopte Mirai op te geven, maar wil de ontwikkelingskosten recupereren in de productie van brandstofcel-vrachtwagens. Is nu bezig met het testen van een prototype.



Daarvoor moet er wel een waterstofbevoorradingnetwerk komen langs de hoofdwegen. Toyota wil dus ook de weg inslaan die Nikola Motor Cie bezig is: https://nikolamotor.com/

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Nikola™ plans to install solar farms to create hydrogen from electrolysis. Nikola™ will convert solar energy to hydrogen using only energy and water, making it the only fuel that is zero emission from production to consumption. The hydrogen is stored at Nikola™ stations in liquid form, and then dispensed into vehicles as compressed or liquid hydrogen. When produced this way, the entire process--from energy creation to energy consumption--is 100% emissions free with Nikola™.

https://electrek.co/2017/04/19/toyot...uel-cell-tech/

Toyota turns to semi trucks for its hydrogen fuel cell tech, unveils new prototype with Mirai powertrain

Fred Lambert - Apr. 19th 2017

Toyota is undoubtedly having difficulties selling the Mirai, its hydrogen car, in the US. Despite cutting the price on several occasions, with now a lease at only $350 (down from $500) in California, the Japanese automaker can’t find a market for the vehicle and only delivered 782 units during the first 2 years of production. That’s despite the millions of dollars in government money spent on refueling infrastructure.

The automaker is now turning to big rigs to use the fuel cell hydrogen powertrain with a new prototype unveiled today.

The “Project Portal” hydrogen fuel cell truck unveiled at the Port of Los Angeles uses two of the same fuel cell stacks found in the Mirai plus a 12 kWh battery pack.

They claim that the powertrain can generate “more than 670 horsepower and 1325 pound-feet of torque”, which results in a gross combined weight capacity of 80,000 lbs and an estimated driving range of “more than 200 miles per fill”.

Toyota announced today that they are launching a feasibility study through Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TMNA) to examine potential usage for this truck concept.

Though hydrogen certainly has more potential with semi-trucks than passenger cars, it’s still not likely to triumph over batteries for powering the next generation of zero-emission transport.

As we have often explained before, the entire end-to-end process from production to consumption is 3x times more energy efficient for battery-powered vehicles than hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Dit ondanks het feit dat batterijwagens 3 maal efficienter zijn dan waterstof-brandstofcelwagens.

Benieuwd of er kans tot slagen is, Nikola Motor is in elk geval niet meer alleen met zijn "zéro-emissie-vrachtwagens", en vooral de nodige waterstofbevoorrading.... Of het van de grond komt is een andere vraag.

Tesla ziet er alleszins geen toekomst in - ook niet als tussenstap - en gaat direct voor BEV-vrachtwagens vanaf 2018 op kleine schaal:
https://electrek.co/2017/04/18/tesla...ck-disruptive/

De electrische bussen zijn al enkele jaren volledig doorgebroken (vooral China#), waarom zou dat met vrachtwagens niet lukken? Flessehals blijft natuurlijk de productie van goede grote accupacks. Meer "Gigafactorys" zijn nodig...

# https://cleantechnica.com/2017/02/03...w-115700-2016/

Growth during 2016 continued to be quite strong, going on the figures provided by Jose, with some #115,700 electric buses sold in China during the year. This figure represents a roughly 20% market share for the modality in the country. We combined the new figures with previous China electric bus sales figures Jose rounded up in order to create the following chart (a static, downloadable version is above).

om te tonen hoe men zich radicaal kan vergissen in de E-bussen wereldwijd, met vermoedelijke groei van een oude link uit augustus 2012:

http://electriccarsreport.com/2012/0...-2012-to-2018/

China alleen al bracht 115.700 E-bussen op de markt op één jaar of factor 10 maal meer dan voorspelt in 2012... het jaar dat Tesla zijn eerste Model S verkocht...