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MARCH 3, 2015

Toyota said that it is expecting annual volume of 50-100 cars/year in 2015 and 2016. The system uses Toyota-developed components including the Toyota FC Stack, FC boost converter, and high-pressure hydrogen tanks. Initial price is €66,000 (US$73,735) + VAT (Germany). Toyota Mirai at Geneva 2015. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 19, 2016

And again at this year’s 2016 SAE World Congress, Toyota presented three more papers: one detailing the development of Mirai’s Toyota Fuel Cell System (TCFS) and two dealing with the critical issues of the fuel cell catalysts. The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al. FC Boost Converter. Kato (2016) Click to enlarge. Hasegawa, T.,

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The Mirai uses the Toyota Fuel Cell System (TFCS), which features both fuel cell technology and hybrid technology, and includes proprietary Toyota-developed components including the fuel cell (FC) Stack, FC boost converter, and high-pressure hydrogen tanks. FC Boost Converter. The system accelerates Mirai from 0–60 in 9.0

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The Q7 PHEV will arrive in dealerships in Germany in 2016, and will likely come to the US, although perhaps with a gasoline-engine variant. Under a venture with the motto “From Road to Grid”, Audi is therefore currently working on a concept to convert old batteries into stationary energy stores. Audi e-tron quattro concept SUV.

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