My hydrogen gen II Prius

is this the original mirai?

 

Did not know there was such a beast.
TomK

 

What are you going to do with the car? I'd love to know more about the Engine Management. I saw one dismantled down in San Diego and got pictures of the turbo.

 

and what did they accomplish with all that time and money?

 

Found out that after dumping million($) into 30 prius that it wasn't a good alternative fuel... yet. Lost so much power that they had to add a small turbo and it still barely kept up with the gas prius.

 

Still pretty cool tho. Would love to learn more about the R&D.

 

huh... I thought hydrogen was good fuel. I assumed we'd see hydrogen used a lot, if full electric doesn't just make the ICE completely obsolete. does hydrogen have less combustion energy in it than LPG?

 

What kind of range do you expect? With so few hydrogen refueling stations open so far, how far away from home do you plan to take it? Have you or are you investing in a home fueling station for it?

 

i suppose you could tie down a dirigible in your backyard.

 

and name it hindenberg 2

 

My mistake. I had the refueling of natural gas confused with the refueling of hydrogen.

I'm still interested in the range and now I'm interested in how close or inconvenient it will be to get to a refueling station.

 

$76,000 plus the cost of the new prius ....so it was $94,000 new?
driven less then 3000 miles than sold at auction for (a lot less)
no wonder the government is broke

 

broke = 0, then there's the other 18 trillion the greeks are jealous of.

 

near as I can tell, most politicians are only good for 1 thing: target practice. same goes for lawyers.

 

They are excellent bad examples.

 

Range is 105miles on the 3 tank version.

 

That is sooooo COOL!

Thanks for sharing.

DBCassidy

 

whats the cost to fill it and go 105 miles...and where do you fill it.. 105 miles in my prius is $6.50 and I can fill it anywhere..

 

well i found this:

1. Hydrogen is measured by the kilogram. 1 kilogram is 1 gallon of gasoline equivalent (gge). 2. $0.0015/gallon + $0.987/kg (gge) Refining Costs = $0.9885 = $1.00/kg (gge) using Atmospheric Electrolyses

i think the video said it held 1.5 KG of hydrogen so based on the above 105 miles would cost $1.50 ?