Featured Toyota details design of fuel cell system

Toyota's fuel cells don't push forward small fuel cells for electronics. Fuel cells looked poised to be part of high end lap tops in 2000, but lithium polymer batteries and solid state drives have just about killed that move. Fuel cells just can't be as small, light, and convient, and you can't fly with your liquid fuel to charge your fuel cells. Maybe in drones, but again those are liquid fuel, not 10,000 psi hydrogen fuel cells.

So what was big from this toyota anouncement?

Of course it is only 10% more efficient than the 2009 clarity, so honda/gm probably already were on top of this and won't use toyota patents. The other thing to note was toyota claimed 68 mpge on the fchv-adv, a complete fiction as we can now see, it was because of a much easier test. I'd like to see if the mirai can hit 100 mpge on that really easy test, which was hyped as real world.

I guess the headlines are less than they seem. The big thing is getting fuel cells cheaper and more reliable. We know toyota is working on it. Let them trumpet the advance when they do it. Until then it doesn't compete well with plug-ins.

 

if only Toyota's hydrogen car could be recharged on their constant over stating .... yea, I know they can process hydrogen from cow poop ... but that's no where near as plentiful as Toyota's own grown bs.

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