The Future of Electrifying Heavy-Duty Machines
The future of electrifying heavy-duty machines is split between batteries and hydrogen fuel cells.
The future of electrifying heavy-duty machines is split between batteries and hydrogen fuel cells.
The 2022 Toyota Mirai drives and handles like any other car, actually better than many other cars, has the performance of an electric car (which it should because it is an electric car) and gets stellar, emission-free fuel economy.
There is another option, though, in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Are they the future of motoring?
Toyota has developed strong links with two partners—Hino, a medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacture that is a part of the Toyota automotive orbit; and BYD, the leading Chinese battery-car maker.
Hyundai began delivery of its second-generation fuel cell SUV, the 2019 Hyundai Nexo this week.
Hyundai announced recently that its 2017 Tucson FCEV (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) reached some pretty lofty numbers–the, 150+ models leased since 2014 have been driven in excess of three million miles.
Toyota didn’t get to be one of the largest automotive companies in the world by thinking small. So, a Toyota fuel cell-powered Class 8 truck should only be slightly surprising.
General Motors presented its Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS), a flexible fuel cell electric platform with autonomous capabilities, at this week’s meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA).
Mercedes-Benz arrived at the Frankfurt Motor Show with a pre-production plug-in fuel-cell version of its GLC F-Cell, ahead of its showroom debut next year.
Clean Fleet Report recently had the chance to drive a pre-production prototype of the first generation Toyota Mirai at the Western Automotive Journalists’ Media Day program in Monterey, California.