The real reason automakers are giving away free hydrogen Are you an aspiring New or Used Car Buyer looking for your dream car? Visit Cars4sa.co.za Filed under: Hydrogen, Toyota Just like Hyundai did with its Tucson fuel cell, Toyota is offering free hydrogen fuel with the $57,500 Mirai H2 sedan. Toyota is being a bit vague about the details, saying simply that Mirai drivers will get, complimentary hydrogen fuel for up to three years. Turns out, the reason that the hydrogen avant-garde will not be paying anything at the pump isnt because the automakers want to give them a boost or because the OEMs are kind. Instead, its simply impossible to accurately charge people for hydrogen right now. Its simply impossible to accurately charge people for hydrogen right now. At an in-depth hydrogen seminar this week as part of the Mirai preview, three representatives from various hydrogen organizations revealed that the current hydrogen stations (most of which are in California) are not set up to accurately measure the hydrogen that is dispensed. Without this little bit of information, you cant charge customers for the fuel they use. Toyota is well aware of this, and Toyota Motor Sales national manager of environmental, safety and quality communications, John Hanson, said that, There are no set standards, so there is no way to charge people for anything. Alberto Ayala, the deputy executive officer for the California Air Resources Board, said CARB is in the middle of developing a way to sell a given amount of hydrogen, which up to this point doesnt exist. If you think about it, its a real simple yet real practical challenge. If youre going to pay for X amount of hydrogen, youre actually getting that amount of hydrogen. Ayala said its not a difficult technical problem to measure the hydrogen as it goes into the car, but we just have not done it. We are at a point where we are solving multiple remaining questions [with hydrogen infrastructure], and that just happens to be one of them. The National Institute of Standards and Technology says that there has been a discussion to change the current tolerance of two percent up to 10 or 20 percent, but that new technology should be able to measure accurately to within one percent. Continue reading The real reason automakers are giving away free hydrogen The real reason automakers are giving away free hydrogen originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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