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Toyota FCHV: Using Hydrogen as the fuel cell
As early as 1979 I made my teaching, “said Toyota spokesman Dirk Breuer technology,” it said, the fuel cell comes to the turn of the century. But cars so there is still no. “Because he’s right. And yet have committed major manufacturers such as DaimlerChrysler, Ford and Toyota to bring the first fuel cell vehicles by the year 2015 on the market. We have one of Toyota’s five prototypes of the FCHV-adv (Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle-advanced) went and visited a hydrogen filling station in Berlin.
Based on the Highlander
The Toyota FCHV is based on the Highlander, a 4.74 meter long SUV, which is not offered to us. Under the bonnet is in the middle of a part that might be taken for an engine, but it is the power electronics. Among them is the fuel cell stack and placed back underneath the electric motor that drives the front axle. The hydrogen tanks, four bottles, each with a half pounds at a pressure of 700 bar, located under the vehicle floor, the nickel-metal hydride battery under the trunk. When starting the FCHV powered by energy from the battery. But the stack starts to work soon after.
Toyota FCHV: Using Hydrogen as the fuel cell