Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai answer fuel cell questions

Doug, regarding education.
The best education for people is knowing someone with the vehicle.
If you sell it nationwide, you will start the ball rolling on that education.

Tesla finds their sales don't grow fastest in areas they open a Store, their fastest growth is in areas where they open a Service Center.

Let your customers do your marketing for you, people love plugins!

 

I'm sure its an uphill slog, but you need to talk to the customers that want the cars, and not the dealers that don't want to sell them. This forum is probably a good place to start for positive plug in stories. I'm sure you have some dealers like Diane Witmore that seems to be able to sell plug-ins well, have the other dealers )out of state) learn from her.

I would say that corporate pr, seems awfully anti-plug-in so I can't blame the dealers alone. How about a couple of pro prius phv press releases like a roll out to 5 more states. The last word we had on the prius phv was a delay 'till the end of 2016 for the next gen, the one before was cancellation of a national roll out. Sure you sell in what 5 of the top 10 states, but they are all carb states, and I think you only have 2 of the top 5 (california and washington). Get the ball rolling a little, and that should add 10%-20% to sales with hardly any effort.

 

2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Car First Drive - HybridCars.com Review

 

Fun facts about hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles : TreeHugger

 

you can purge the water with a switch when it's below freezing so it won't freeze in the lines' great. honey, can you run out and purge the water from the car? i forgot when i got home.

 

Kind of makes me remember on those few occasions - cold weather climate, when the sewer line freezes up and all of a sudden the turds float across the bathroom floor.
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Shhhh! That's there to show the owner's friends it only emits clean water and nothing more.

 

i suppose they'll have an app for that in the advanced model for only another ten grande.

 

I doubt that bisco, they are mainly going to lease these suckers in southern california, and when was the last time it froze there for more than a few hours. We have a US estimate of 3000 cars in the next 37 months, with maybe a handful or two leased outside of california. As a yardstick, in october ford sold 63,803 f-series trucks, tesla 1300 model S, I think the odds of you hearing about a problem toyota fcv are really low as there will be so few.

I am sure that switch is so that it doesn't pee all over the garage, you can dump it before you pull in. They are advertising it like a "feature" because they really don't have much else.

 

i thought i read they're building a fueling station in the boston area?

 

yep
Lighter Than Air? Toyota's Quixotic Plan To Sell Hydrogen Cars Feels Almost Real - Forbes

Toyota in Partnership for Northeast Hydrogen Stations, Names FCV Mirai | Vehicles & Technology content from WardsAuto

I would be shocked if more than 300 cars (10%) were leased or sold outside of California if Toyota doesn't simply give them away for free.

 

agreed. 300 frozen cars.

 

Oh cool! Like when someone gets on your bumper in 10 degree weather, you can just purge the water with one button?

 

need that in the prius.

 

. . . or plumbing from the driver/passenger seat.

The best suggestion, adjust the windshield washer jet high so it can throw some over the top. Then put a little ammonia glass cleaner and some yellow food coloring . . .

Bob Wilson

 

a la james bond.

 

Lux Research: Fuel Cell Vehicles Most Costly To Fuel, EVs & PHEVs Cheapest

 

Fuel Cells A Long Way From Mainstream, Despite Toyota Launch - Forbes

 

A nice summary of the fuel-cell, PowerPoint engineering and press-releases: Fuel Cell : Breaking News, Photos, & Videos - Green Car Reports

• "2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Car will Alter Industry As Prius Did, Says Exec"
• "Why Is Hydrogen Free to Fuel-Cell Car Drivers? Pumps Are The Problem"
• "Volkswagen Passat HyMotion Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicle Prototype: Brief Drive"
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• "Honda To Loan . . ."
• "Audi A7 h-tron quattro . . ."
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• "Can Fuel-Cell Cars Boost Hyundai's . . . "

Sorry, I'm laughing too hard and my cheeks hurt. But there was one brief moment of sanity:

By then we should have working fusion power plants using helium-3 gathered from the moon by our Orion transported moon-miners. Then we can manufacture all the fuel-cell hydrogen needed.

Bob Wilson