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Molly Brookshire

Toyota's North America chief seeks fuel cell sedan supply boost - 0 views

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Toyota Hydrogen 2015MY

shared by Molly Brookshire on 29 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Toyota Motor Corp.’s North American chief, preparing to sell Camry-sized hydrogen sedans next year
  • wants more U.S. supply of the Japan-built cars.
  • Toyota, the world’s largest seller of hybrid-electric autos, is to sell the as-yet unnamed four-door model in California in 2015, as well as in Japan and Europe
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  • Battery models carry electricity in their lithium-ion battery packs while fuel cell vehicles make electricity on board in a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, with only water vapor as a byproduct. While hydrogen vehicles have a range comparable to gasoline vehicles and need only a few minutes to refuel -- compared with hours for most battery autos -- there are few hydrogen pumps currently open to the public.
  • California has said it will provide as much as $200 million over the next decade to help open stations across the most populous U.S. state.
  • Fuel cell autos will need three to five years to build a market presence in California, and at least a decade to get to U.S. sales of half a million or more annually, Lentz said. Still, advances in the technology and an industrywide push, with Daimler AG, General Motors Co. and Nissan also planning to sell fuel cell models, may help the vehicles get a market foothold faster than hybrids, according to Lentz.
Molly Brookshire

Sales of green cars down, but great strides in fuel economy - 0 views

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fuel efficiency

shared by Molly Brookshire on 05 May 14 - No Cached
  • Some green-vehicle technologies that looked like sure bets for the second half of this decade are lagging. And some technologies that seemed like long shots seven model years ago have become viable.
  • Coming up on the outside in this horse race for higher fuel economy: diesel engines, aluminum bodies and -- still a long shot -- hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles. Struggling to live up to expectations: electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. And the big-selling fuel-reducing technology of the moment has turned out to be a more efficient gasoline engine
  • Downsizing has happened more than anyone expected
Molly Brookshire

BBC - Autos - The month in tech: Google readies Android invasion - 0 views

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Google technology

shared by Molly Brookshire on 10 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • At its recent developer conference, Google launched its Android Auto system
  • Android Auto allows drivers to access navigation, music and communications through voice commands and steering wheel controls.
  • Google has partnered with roughly 30 automotive manufacturers to bring the system to market, relieving carmakers of development costs associated with creating their own infotainment system back-ends. Apple's CarPlay system, meanwhile, will be available in many carmakers' 2015 models, among them Hyundai, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz.
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  • The FCV will go on sale in Japan first, in April 2015, for the equivalent of about $70,000, with US and European launches planned for the summer.
  • the FCV would only go on sale in areas like California and Germany, where adequate hydrogen refueling stations and delivery infrastructure existed
  • cruising range of 700km (about 435 miles
  • compressed hydrogen’s higher energy density and its ease of storage and transport
  • The vehicle refuels in just three minutes and only emits water vapor.
  • Ford engineers saw room to improve the efficacy of knee-level airbags
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