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Toyota Fuel Cell Technology at CES 2014

2014-01-08
balti owner was gracious enough to bring us out for CES 2014 so we wanted to head over to them and see what they were up to with their new fuel cell technology enhancements and we found out that not only do they work well for automobiles but also they have a lot of other applications as well for those of us who are new to the term fuel cell how can you explain to me how do fuel cells actually work very simply it's using one of the most simple chemical reactions that's combining hydrogen and oxygen to create water and we introduce the right environments for that the right amount of heat a platinum catalyst and you get electrochemical reaction that creates electricity so I are doing a finding hydrogen oxygen and you get electricity so it's actually creating the electricity on board whereas the battery stores the electricity so instead of having to plug the vehicle in and recharge it the way that you do a battery electric vehicle you refill it with hydrogen so it takes about five minutes to refill the vehicle and you get about 300 miles of all-electric range what would you say are the biggest benefits of fuel cell technology especially in a vehicle such as this with the biggest benefit for the fuel cell technology is really the range that we can get out of it and the power so you can scale fuel cells up to be large enough to power buildings or semis even buses and they also get you the longer range so there's a certain limit to how far we can get our battery vehicles and we think that we can get the fuel cell vehicles further is there a future with fuel cells for say let's say handheld electronics or even just general electronics that are outside of the automotive industry definitely yes toyota is already partnered with company in japan to have fuel cells that provide power for homes but when you're looking to smaller appliances we've seen fuel cells that are powering phones actually the chargers that we have behind us here for all of our cell phones that for our staff here are feel powered so we use what's called a low temperature feel so it's a proton exchange membrane fuel cell and that requires hydrogen as a fuel but you can do other fuel cells for example you can do phosphorous feel self or a lot of people use methanol cartridges so you just use a methanol and that will be your cartridge for your fuel cell stack then that could power like a battery charger or cell phone what makes this updated fcv so exciting this year but must have most exciting part about it is that we're bringing it to market 2015 so this will be our first commercial launch of the fuel cell vehicle do you feel that fuel cell technology is our future absolutely the future for vehicles is going electric and I see the feels thought being playing a huge role in the future of that all right well that is a quick rundown on the fuel cell technology here at Toyota we have a wonderful vehicle right behind us that oh I wish I could drive this off the lot but I think I'm gonna get in trouble if that were the case but I would all right what Jackie thank you very much it was very much very much a pleasure all right we are here android authority at Toyota here at CES 2014 we're taking a look at these cars we really wish we could drive them but yeah I'm I don't wanna get in trouble if I do what
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