Featured Big New Fuel Cell Toyota Announced

They’ve already shown a prototype.

My question: will it have a Toyota model code and a New Car Features book? Also, if one launches on a U.S. mission from Florida, will Southeast Toyota Distributors have to be involved?

 

maybe the fuel cell idea will stay on the moon and never return

 

Like a Tesla?!

 

that didn't quite work out the way you hoped

 

Yep, and toyota is the company Japan wants to build this ;-) The Nasa lunar rover was a bev, and was rather spartan to save weight. Climate control was non existent as drivers needed to wear their space suits. Toyota has built SUVs that are great all over the world, and fcv that need lots of subsidies. Here the Japanese government can give Toyota requirements directly and maybe it will bring down the costs of the tens of thousands of fuel cell vehicles toyota has promised to start making a year next year. The vehicle is scheduled for 10 years from now.

I believe that Southeast Toyota will not be involved. If it goes on a space launch from florida, its likely that Toyota Japan will deliver it in Japan to JAXA, they will test it there, then JAXA will transport it to florida for a space mission. Go Space Force!

 

Mars, not our moon.

Bob Wilson

 

I assume they will be building many hydrogen refueling stations to go with it.

Mike

 

Will probably end up with more up there than here.

 

A long way to go for warranty work...

 

"they" - as in - taxpayers?
I'm sure it'll work though. Hmmmm .... i wonder how many 1,000's of sq' of solar panels it'll take, to generate electricity, to run the reformation plant on this vehicle, and then compress the hydrogen into its tanks .... rather than just use the PV to render 4X more power than fuel cell conversion. And the giant water tank, that the hydrogen will be reformed from ... that's gotta be a whopper.

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oh the irony . . . . Musk may feel sorry for these folk, cut them a deal .... have Space X tow them out - and get them on their way.
bub-bye!!

 

In this application, you already have to compress and liquify a bunch of hydrogen to fuel the rockets, or you design the fuel cell to run on hydrazine. So powering this FCEV will be like siphoning some gas off an RV for a scooter.

 

Hmmm fill up with once every 6k miles yes please

 

coal - (being the cheapest of the various/expensive ways to reform hydrogen) production - is going to have to really pick up if we want to use it for outer space hydrogen.
BAAAH - what's a few extra Brazilian tons of fly ash. Then there's this, as a possibility;

Peak coal: sooner than you think - Resilience

BAAAH - who cares. We can just burn old growth forests if we start running low on coal. As long as we make hydrogen work - it's worth it

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Training simulator available here.

 

Let’s just go back to walking!