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Old 12-18-2020, 07:58 PM   #43
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The pricing on the next gen Mirai shows that the fuel cell tech is slowly becoming less expensive. Unlike hybrids, the cost reduction could not be attributed to volume at this point.
Environmentally, less battery is better. The only question is whether the fuel cell will be reusable at end of life for the vehicle or not. That would be a big plus if the cell was essentially a removable/reusable appliance.
I had read a few years ago that researchers in South Korea had built a fuel cell that was catalyzed with carbon tubules. The cost was expected to be far less than using precious metals. Not sure if this or other revisions have reduced the fuel cell cost.
Provided hydrogen continues to prove itself safe to store in a vehicle, fuel cell tech makes a lot of sense when range and refuelling times are important.
Tesla has the lead in premium green vehicles, but I see great potential for the Mirai. The metals used in hybrid batteries could become more costly and scarcer over time. Fuel cells, afaik dont lose their power output ability in a few year like batteries.
Not knowing the lifespan of a typical fuel cell system, everything else is very compelling and it seems like the infrastructure for hydrogen production could easily be incorporated to many existing refuelling facilities.
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This is true for full charging, but this isn’t the typical behavior of most people who use Superchargers. Like Dadhawk said, the advantage goes to the EVs because people can charge at home. The average person drives 30 miles or less a day, which is within the means of recharging each night on a 120v system. If people use the 240v, 48amp Tesla wall charger then they can do a full charge overnight.

Most people using Superchargers aren’t needing a full charge from a depleted battery, nor are they fully charging the car. Maybe they have 15 minutes to kill, so they charge half a charge. And of course, it is getting faster and faster to charge these cars, but hydrogen charging is fixed.

Meanwhile, home charging is plentiful, Supercharging stations are plentiful, Superchargers at the Supercharging stations are plentiful. 3rd party fast chargers and slower destination chargers are even more plentiful. They are cheap to install, relatively speaking. Many cities are integrating chargers into malls and business parking structures. In short, the difference is stark.

San Diego has one hydrogen fuel station. How many gas stations? We have more gas stations in Sonoma County and maybe within a 15 mile radius than all hydrogen fuel stations in California. Currently it is estimated that California has 10,266 public fuel stations, so hydrogen has far to go. Meanwhile, there are over 16,320 Superchargers in California, many other fast chargers and over 50k level 2 chargers, not counting home chargers.

The other thing is hydrogen fuel stations are more expensive than charging stations, and they are investing more in charging than hydrogen. It’ll be good to have both, but it is clear hydrogen is in a huge deficit.



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If the average person drives 30 miles a day, then a 312 mile range Mirai would have to spend 5 minutes fueling once every 10 days.
Less if you consider that it has a small battery pack that could also be charged directly.

You know, that's exactly what I want to be doing with my spare time. Finding a charging station to add a few miles to my range. . Also, hydrogen fill time isn't a huge concern, but I'm sure if there were any incentive someone could invent a faster pump.

Supercharging stations are plentiful because Musk threw other people's money at it for the last decade. Tesla is a furnace into which people feed dollar bills. If Hydrogen had that kind of enthusiasm we would probably all be driving hydrogen cars by now.

But is a hydrogen fueling station more expensive than 18+ supercharger stations (assuming the same number of plugs as pumps)? To match the capacity of fueling stations you do have, many of which are in places you don't go to spend an hour waiting to move on, you need more than 180,000 charging stations if they all had the same amount of superchargers as pumps at the gas stations. You would need over a million level 2(?) charging stations. Now, do you really need the capacity you actually have, no, but if you really want to compare capacity against fueling stations as a metric, those are the numbers you are looking at.

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Cost estimates per station range from US$100,000 in 2013[42] to US$270,000 in 2015, depending on the number of stalls and other circumstances.
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If the average person drives 30 miles a day, then a 312 mile range Mirai would have to spend 5 minutes fueling once every 10 days.
Less if you consider that it has a small battery pack that could also be charged directly.

You know, that's exactly what I want to be doing with my spare time. Finding a charging station to add a few miles to my range. . Also, hydrogen fill time isn't a huge concern, but I'm sure if there were any incentive someone could invent a faster pump.

Supercharging stations are plentiful because Musk threw other people's money at it for the last decade. Tesla is a furnace into which people feed dollar bills. If Hydrogen had that kind of enthusiasm we would probably all be driving hydrogen cars by now.

But is a hydrogen fueling station more expensive than 18+ supercharger stations (assuming the same number of plugs as pumps)? To match the capacity of fueling stations you do have, many of which are in places you don't go to spend an hour waiting to move on, you need more than 180,000 charging stations if they all had the same amount of superchargers as pumps at the gas stations. You would need over a million level 2(?) charging stations. Now, do you really need the capacity you actually have, no, but if you really want to compare capacity against fueling stations as a metric, those are the numbers you are looking at.

Cost of a supercharger station from wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Supercharger

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Finding an electric charging station shouldn't be a problem. The charging station is your garage I plug my car in to trickle charge my Braille battery. Same effort. I plug in my phone. I plug in my laptop. If the parking structure at my work had chargers then my car could be charging 23.5 hours most work days because my commute is 3.5-5 miles one way to work. If the average person drives 30 miles a day and takes two hours to do that because of bad traffic then there is the potential to charge for 22 hours. That is more than enough to serve the 30 miles a day at 120v and then some. Obviously if someone has access to a gen 3 wall charger at their house or destination then they could add potentially a maximum of 44 miles per hour of charging, which is a full charge from a full depleted battery in a typical night. This is the advantage with EVs; there are plugs everywhere and fast chargers are just an option and a means of traveling far, but not necessary for the majority of people on a daily basis.

Even if someone wanted to use a Supercharger, unless they were on a long road trip, the Supercharger would only be needed to make up the difference. For instance, if someone wanted to fully charge the car then cool, but if they just wanted to add more miles than a night of charging because they were doing a longer drive the next day into the city or to visit a friend in the next town then 5 minutes on a V3 Supercharger could add 75 miles. Add that to a slower home charger, and the example above would have added over a hundred or more miles in the worst case scenario with five minutes of effort.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesl...harger-tested/

Because of the above, you can't try to make an apples to apples comparison between hydrogen refueling and EV refueling. The behavior and means of charging is completely different. The fact is that if all cars where hydrogen then we would need 10,266 fuel stations converted to hydrogen or new stations built, and we are far away from that. Are they retrofitting any old stations to save cost? That could be an option, but often times it is cheaper to build new then renovate a structure because of building codes. For EVs, most people only occasionally need a supercharger. The problem is surge usage during holidays and other times.

Your cost analysis is off too. The price of the EV stations is largely the cost of the land and other logistics. They can be built relatively cheaply if there is careful planning. Read the link for a full cost breakdown of what the EVs cost to build and maintain. I think if you research what a hydrogen fuel station costs to maintain and build then you will see there is a big difference. Level 2 charging stations are super cheap. They can put them up for super cheap. Building a parking structure? Plan ahead and add refueling stations at each port. This is already happening. It dramatically brings down the cost of these installs.

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There is also a wide variation in cost for installing DCFC. In the EV Project, the cost to install over 100 dual port DCFC units ranged from $8,500 to $50,820 with an average installation cost of $23,662. The lower installation costs ($8,500-$20,000) were generally for sites that were able to use existing electrical service. Figure 9 shows the distribution of EV Project DCFC installation costs, by cost tier. The WCEH had an average installation cost of $40,000 for the DCFC. The higher DCFC installation costs for the WCEH compared to the EV Project is partially due to many WCEH installations taking place in rural locations that required electrical service upgrades. The WCEH project had rigorous design and construction standards that required a deep concrete foundation. The EV Project focused on taking advantage of existing electrical service infrastructure to drive down costs.

The Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) installed five DCFC units in Orlando with installation costs ranging from $4,000-$9,000 each (OUC 2014). They were able to minimize costs through careful selection of site locations such that minimal trenching or boring was needed to connect the DCFC to the electrical service. OUC also conducted a competitive bidding process that included training electricians on how to install EVSE.
https://afdc.energy.gov/files/u/publ...eport_2015.pdf

Besides the problem of finding a hydrogen fuel station near or needing to drive far to get to a fueling station (44 miles for the closest fueling station to me), the other issue is finding fuel at this time. They can build a lot of fuel stations, but they also need to work on making more hydrogen. Being low on fuel is a big problem right now, and they don't even have many hydrogen cars on the road. Check out the stations, and you will see for yourself.
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The pricing on the next gen Mirai shows that the fuel cell tech is slowly becoming less expensive. Unlike hybrids, the cost reduction could not be attributed to volume at this point.

Environmentally, less battery is better. The only question is whether the fuel cell will be reusable at end of life for the vehicle or not. That would be a big plus if the cell was essentially a removable/reusable appliance.

I had read a few years ago that researchers in South Korea had built a fuel cell that was catalyzed with carbon tubules. The cost was expected to be far less than using precious metals. Not sure if this or other revisions have reduced the fuel cell cost.

Provided hydrogen continues to prove itself safe to store in a vehicle, fuel cell tech makes a lot of sense when range and refuelling times are important.

Tesla has the lead in premium green vehicles, but I see great potential for the Mirai. The metals used in hybrid batteries could become more costly and scarcer over time. Fuel cells, afaik dont lose their power output ability in a few year like batteries.

Not knowing the lifespan of a typical fuel cell system, everything else is very compelling and it seems like the infrastructure for hydrogen production could easily be incorporated to many existing refuelling facilities.
It seems the fuel cell is recyclable. I don't know how much of it is recyclable though. The life of the fuel cells seems to be 150,000-200,000 miles. I don't know what the life is on the carbon fiber fuel tanks either. Battery life for EVs, or, at least Tesla's, is pretty good. The losses are not that bad, and the new batteries are suppose to last 500,000-1,000,000 miles.



I think fuel cell vehicles are an eventuality once the infrastructure has time to catch up like stations and fuel production, but I think that future is much further away than an EV future, and it probably depends on materials for batteries being scarce, for battery technology to plateau and costs per kWh to plateau higher than is likely. If the cost of batteries continues to fall, the rate of charging continues to increase, the weight of batteries drops, etc. then hydrogen passenger cars might find a small audience. This is especially the case if the performance stays on par with the Mirai: 0-60 in 9.1 seconds!

The fuel is a big part of this whole thing. Right now, 95% of hydrogen fuel comes from fossil fuels. We are investing in wind and solar, but I don't know if we are investing in electrolysis because the energy from electrolysis will need to come from wind and solar and other renewable sources to be clean. So, we essentially need to develop electric production probably before we develop green hydrogen production. Then there is the cost of the fuel at the pump. There is a reason Toyota is offering $15,000 in free fuel. This is because most people might have some shock at the pumps. For instance, the Mirai has fuel tanks with a capacity of 32.3 gallon, but hydrogen fuel is sold by the kg, and the capacity is roughly 5 kg, and the average cost of hydrogen in California is $16/kg, so it will cost $80 to fill up the Mirai if it gets maximum miles. Price could be closer to $100, but it is "free" for 3-5 years, so this point is mostly off the table.

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Thanks for posting. The external of the car is pretty bland to me, and the nose is too long, but maybe that's just the angle of the external view.

Sadly, no Mirai for me anyway since I live on the wrong side of the country for that option.

As a reviewer, Doug is growing on me, although I still have to just listen and not watch when he does external shots and is doing his impression of a goose trying to take off after getting it's leg trapped.
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Nobody is going to call them out for the seriously tacky name? I'd expect it from Kia and Hyundai, not Toyota...

Edit: for those not in the know, Mirai means future
Why not? It's Toyota's gamble on the future after all. They're invested in hybrid + FCVs moving forward, not battery.

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I read that the mirai started off as the next gen Lexus GS project before that car was dropped completely, and then this just got repurposed as a Toyota Mirai.

There are some Lexus cues in it (Especially the instrument binnacle area...looks straight out of Lexus) and the fact that the Mirai started off as an oddball looking FWD stretched Prius tank and all of a sudden did a complete 180 on a RWD platform with proper RWD size and proportions and relatively good looks makes that rumor believable.
First gen Mirai is built on a modified Prius platform, hence the odd shape and size. The car also had part of the fuel cell stack mounted in the passenger cabin so there was always odd noises coming when the car was running, my friend's dad has one. Just starting it in the garage and you hear all sorts of random crap for a car that was supposed to be future tech.

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They managed to reduce stack weight by 50% and increase power. But then increased vehicle weight by 200lb? Possibly due to the increased size or fuel tank layout/capacity?
The main reason for the weight increase was the use of the Lexus LS RWD platform (instead of the lighter Priux XW30 platform).


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You actually don't need as many hydrogen stations as chargers for the same amount of cars. To fill an empty hydrogen car is what, 5 minutes?
That's my number one reason for wanting a fuel cell vehicle as my next true non-gasoline car. Once you have enough stations set up, you can go anywhere...

If there's enough range for me to drive to Mammoth Mountain and back without refuelling (currently ~600 miles from my house) then that is the one I'll buy.

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The pricing on the next gen Mirai shows that the fuel cell tech is slowly becoming less expensive. Unlike hybrids, the cost reduction could not be attributed to volume at this point.
More efficient manufacturing, if nothing else. The platform is more cost effective since it wasn't so heavily modified, and plus they were able to fit the actual fuel cell stack under the hood for a change.

Still, the tiny trunk is very disappointing, as well as the oddly large transmission tunnel.
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Why not? It's Toyota's gamble on the future after all. They're invested in hybrid + FCVs moving forward, not battery.
For exactly that reason- it's the future now, but in 40 years it'll be some prehistoric tech that started something possibly worthwhile.
Imagine if Nintendo or someone named their next ground breaking console "Mirai".

I'm not saying they can't, just that the word dates whatever it's attached to immediately
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For exactly that reason- it's the future now, but in 40 years it'll be some prehistoric tech that started something possibly worthwhile.
Imagine if Nintendo or someone named their next ground breaking console "Mirai".

I'm not saying they can't, just that the word dates whatever it's attached to immediately
Mirai is a test vehicle. My guess is they are planning to move the more recognizable nameplates to hfcv and retire the Mirai name until the next big thing. It's actually brilliant because now they own that name for a car. If fuel cells/ vehicles are successful, which I am certain they will be, it's a great marketing move to get people on board with the next big technology shift.

But I suppose they could have did what Ford did and name their first bev cuv after their muscle car, which is named after a plane which is named after an even older transportation technology...
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Mirai is a test vehicle. My guess is they are planning to move the more recognizable nameplates to hfcv and retire the Mirai name until the next big thing. It's actually brilliant because now they own that name for a car. If fuel cells/ vehicles are successful, which I am certain they will be, it's a great marketing move to get people on board with the next big technology shift.

But I suppose they could have did what Ford did and name their first bev cuv after their muscle car, which is named after a plane which is named after an even older transportation technology...
Makes sense for a test name. Owning the name is a good move, you're right. Last thing we need is GM owning it and assigning it to their vehicle with built in microwaves to align with a pre-cooked food strategy for fast food chains.
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Makes sense for a test name. Owning the name is a good move, you're right. Last thing we need is GM owning it and assigning it to their vehicle with built in microwaves to align with a pre-cooked food strategy for fast food chains.

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Not saying this doesn't suck on the part of GM, but I guess you are saying you think this tactic is a GM only one? At one point or another every manufacturer has faced similar issues and not owned up to them.

Let's take one I have experience with the 2003 Honda Accord. Not only are the transmissions known to slip and basically lose 2nd gear (so much so that Honda faced a lawsuit and extended the warranty but most problems didn't occur until AFTER the mileage in the extended warranty). The problem is bad enough the transmission cannot be repaired, it has to be replaced. They also have self-peeling clear coat on them that starts coming off usually about the time the car hits just above the paint warranty. The only remedy is a full repaint.
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