Toyota Motor Corp. has a master hydrogen plan that’s a lot like playing with Lego blocks.
It starts with what is known as a fuel cell stack that can be mated to an electric powertrain to create a vehicle with no tailpipe emissions.
For a passenger car such as the Mirai, one fuel cell stack will suffice. A Class 8 heavy-duty truck like the Toyota prototype running out of the Port of Long Beach, Calif., needs two. Just a half works for a forklift. The company scales up or down depending on the vehicle's class requirements.
Doug Murtha, the group vice president of corporate strategy and planning for Toyota’s U.S. sales division, sat down with Trucks.com recently for an in-depth discussion of the automaker’s heavy-duty fuel cell truck and its hydrogen strategy. Here is an edited version of the conversation.
Da sie forklift erwähnen, könntest du recht haben.