GTI–led team to develop diesel/JP8 SOFC for Army
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 2004
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
fuel cell stack was developed and built in-house by Toyota, and uses hydrogen gas stored in four 350 bar (5000 psi) tanks. The vehicle has a range of up to 180 miles (290 km) and a top speed of 96 mph (155 km/h), and has been certified as a ZEV by the California Air Resources Board.
Horiba is the second Irvine-based company to 'adopt' a Toyota FCHV for normal daily use. Employees of Orthodyne Electronics, a manufacturer of ultrasonic wire bonders, have been driving a Toyota FCHV since the end of 2002.
Toyota has enlisted UC Irvine and UC Davis to test different aspects of consumer acceptance and market dynamics of FCVs, with each campus leasing two FCHVs. The National Fuel Cell Research Center at UC Irvine is researching product performance, reliability and usability, while the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis is using its FCHVs to study consumer awareness of and attitudes towards hydrogen FCVs and the hydrogen fueling infrastructure.