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Toyota Mirai First Look - Hydrogen Power Goes Mainstream

2015-01-08
this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by the all new G flex 2 from LG life's good what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here we're at CES 2015 take a look at the Toyota Mirai by thinking yourself what's up with that fancy looking Corolla and two I say there's much more literally under this hood but you get in a conventional car so we get started I'd wager you're probably familiar with battery electric cars are powered by batteries similar cells of how are your laptop they're quiet they make your card go there are a lot of alternative fuel options out there including a hydrogen and that's what Toyota's mariah is being powered by I think of hydrogen a lot of people think that it's like gasps it's a fuel but a hydrogen cars actually an electric car let me get a little scientific with you for a minute again a battery car it's got cells in it and as I get to play that you plug it in and you charge again this you put hydrogen into the car through fueling stations which are being built all over primarily the west coast but they're coming to the rest of the country and hydrogen will be free for this by the way because Toyota and other hydrogen manufacturers are being generous but also because there's no way to charge for it much like gas there's fuel in the car which is hydrogen that Hydrans gonna pass through fuel cells which are arranged in a stack company you might have heard and as it goes through the electrons are stripped out of the hydrogen leaving the byproduct only as water and those electrons obviously electricity and those are going to go through and power the car none like attrition electric car you don't plug this guy in you go to hydrogen station and you can refuel this guy is available now you can buy it of course or lease it for about 500 bucks a month with thirty six hundred dollars down it's in a coma three years of free maintenance 24 hour concierge service and other kind of niceties it also a lot of cool car tech and it aside from the powertrain which is you know super novel it's got all those radios take your features you'd expect from a modern car may stop real fast and tell you about the LG G flex to sing expect to the gills highlighted by a 5.5 inch full HD p oled screen and what better way to take advantage of that p oled screen then with images captured by its 13 megapixel rear camera one of the big worries people have on hydrogen is that like people think you're driving around in a bomb the tanks that are under here have been ballistically tested to withstand any type of impact from direct gunshots shotgun shots to very easily withstand any sort of car accident that you could be in a lot of people forget is attritional gasoline-powered cars are powered by explosions so you're always already explosions going on in every single car hydrogen is no more dangerous than carrying around a full tank of gasoline when I first saw them are I might not have been blown over by how it looked one of those things it looks much better in person I think that it does a picture so if you get a chance to see one go to your Toyota dealership try and look it up online of course watch watch our videos on judge for yourself one hear what you guys think about hydrogen do you think it's a future would you get if you have the option in the electric car a hydrogen car or just a regular gasoline powered car let's hear your thoughts on it until next time i'm john wren checkin TechnoBuffalo see you guys next video bye bye this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by the all new G flex 2 from LG life's good thank you guys for checking out our CES 2015 coverage if you want to see more hit the big subscribe link down below
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