Mirai range maps

I wonder if someone will make a map of hybrid stations similar to supercharger.info ?
The ability to easily modify the size of those circles and add or remove them from stations is very helpful.
While I hate fueling stops, I think once a week would be reasonable.
Doubling the size of those circles for daily trips adds a lot of people.

I suppose you could have circles with graduated colors radially. Green (center) to red(rim) showing the frequency of fill ups.

 

I have only seen 4 Mirai in the wild: 3 privately owned and 1 owned by Caltrans in the Fairfield office. The closest hydrogen refueling stations are in San Ramon or West Sac (both about equidistant from the Caltrans office but in opposite directions).

I believe there are plans to place 2 additional stations: one in Concord / Walnut Creek and one in Vacaville.

If that happens, range anxiety will decrease and I bet I’ll see more of them around.

Always fun to see one of them in the wild.

 

I was going to start a separate thread with something Mirai related, but didn't want it to look like some kind of hit piece /exposé. This comes from an insider & it's relating to Mirai sales/leases.
Remember prior to GM going bankrupt, how they tried to sell off the Hummer line, but even the Chinese refuse to buy it? Remember how Hummer manufacturing continued & continued to the point dealerships had to hide them in spare back Lots at shopping malls & business centers? .... so that dealerships wouldn't look like there was a massive unsold glut? Which in fact there was?




I was told that Toyota dealerships don't want to show their dirty laundry either, & I was given the location to a particular shopping center remote backlot. Lo & behold;




this is just for Orange County. Not the Bay Area, not San Diego, not Los Angeles. But if directed, you can find out where they are.
There was literally months of crud and dust on these suckers. At least they kept the Hummers clean. I don't know what to make of it other than facially these things are obviously not moving and yet they are still coming off the boat. And no this was not the shipyard delivery off Long Beach. That's got to be an embarrassment for Toyota.
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I wonder where the Hummers went.

 

there isn't enough cow bleep in the universe to fuel all those cars.

 

You have an idea on an address up this way?

I’d go scout it out and provide a count.

I’ve only seen a handful in the wild and oddly enough there was one at the local pick n pull.

It was a customers car but still looked VERY out of place.

 

no @orenji chiming in on these range maps?

 

The title of the thread has Mirai and not Tesla in it.

If Tesla appeared, it would be like the red cape for the bull.

 

There is nothing really to say. A lot of parked cars? I guess if you have never seen lots of vehicle inventory this would look odd. Nothing new here. There are many lots of new cars that are storage lots for dealers. We already know that they are not flying off the shelves. But in OC County I do see them daily as well as Hondas. So some peps are buying them.

 

Looks like 3,000 plus sales reported in Jan 2018 for them....
Toyota Mirai Sales Surpass 3,000 in California - Motor Trend

 

So, that's 3000 total since 10/15 ?

 

They released in 2015 but to only a few select dealers. So it was not a full launch.

 

Let me translate for you El Dobro. That is Orenji for "Yes".

 

The fact that a full launch is only for one state, or part of one, gave me a chuckle.

 

iirc, in addition to the Mirai - black lot glut, there is also the foreclosure of the extra huge amount of subsidies that Mirai was afforded which offset the expensive $15 per liter for refueling at no cost, & the car's $58K before sales tax cost. The 1st 3 years, drivers got to avoid refueling expenses, but not anymore. And - as of last month (June 30 to be exact) its Cali tax fund/rebated/credit dried up - just as Mirai back lots began. Coincidence?

2016 Toyota Mirai Long-Term Verdict: Pulling Off the Hydrogen Highway - Motor Trend
So between all of that & the clarity having better pick up, handling, more seating, more than (only) 4 dealerships qualified to do service (compared to the Clarity) .... and mega expensive / minimal refuelung infrastructure that often requires miles just to get to - iduno. It's not that maybe in 10 years this couldn't work, I suppose, but throwing solar on your residence to recharge an E V for free? As the farmer says, 'that's a tough row to hoe'. EV's too have limits, sure - but if we each find its still gona work - go for it.
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funding "dries up" and gets renewed every year, so that's no big deal.

i think more telling are the incentives toyota is offering to sell this car. currently that's $349/mo + $15k fuel + $2499 due at signing. financing is at 1.9% APR for 72 months + $15k fuel + $7500 cash. Highlander LE has equivalent lease terms but with no free fuel, and that car retails for $31k.