Tokyo, Jan 8, 2015 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation and Hino Motors, Ltd. have developed a new Toyota Fuel Cell System-equipped(1) bus, which is scheduled to service the Toyota Oiden bus route in Toyota City from January 9.
The Toyota Fuel Cell System, which integrates fuel cell and hybrid vehicle technologies, was developed for the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. The new fuel cell bus is equipped with eight high-pressure hydrogen tanks as well as two fuel cell stacks and two motors to provide increased output. The bus also features a system for supplying electric power to buildings and other facilities during emergencies, which was enhanced through rigorous verification testing beginning in November 2013.
Toyota and Hino will verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the fuel cell bus through testing involving commercial operation on regular routes on public roads and will feed back the results into R&D. Hydrogen fueling of the bus will be carried out at Toyota Ecoful Town, under a New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization project.
The verification testing will be conducted with the cooperation of Toyota City as a part of public fuel cell bus road trials and emergency external power supply testing that began in 2010 under the Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project, which has been selected as one of the Next-Generation Energy and Social System Demonstration Projects being promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Information about the operational plan and the fuel cell bus is outlined below.
Fuel cell bus operation plan
Start: January 9, 2015
Operator : Toyota City Branch of Meitetsu Bus Co., Ltd.
Routes: Three round-trips daily (excluding Mondays) on the Toyota Oiden Bus Toyota East Loop (between Toyota City and Mikawa Toyota Station)
Vehicles used: One
Reference information
During the international conferences that will be held during Toyota City's Toyota World Environment Week (January 10 to 18), a fuel cell bus will be used as a shuttle between event venues on January 15 and demonstrations of the emergency external power supply system will be conducted from January 14 to 18 at Toyota Ecoful Town. For more information on Toyota World Environment Week: http://www2.convention.co.jp/sustainablecity/.
Note:
(1) A system comprised of fuel cell stacks, motors, high-pressure hydrogen tanks, fuel cell boost converters, drive batteries, and other components.
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