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2022 Toyota Mirai: Toyota Hydrogen FCEV Technology

2022 Toyota Mirai: Toyota Hydrogen FCEV Technology

2022 Toyota Mirai: Toyota Hydrogen FCEV Technology – Mirai is based on the Toyota Premium rear-wheel-drive platform and debuting with a dramatic Coupe-style design, yet enhanced with passenger space and better comfort.

The second-gen Mirai will be sold at the end of 2020 and will provide a significant evolution of the Toyota hydrogen FCEV technology powertrain and offer a critical view to the future of the Toyota lineup.

2022 Toyota Mirai Toyota Hydrogen FCEV Technology

2022 Toyota Mirai Toyota Hydrogen FCEV Technology
2022 Toyota Mirai Toyota Hydrogen FCEV Technology

The dramatic change in design also signifies Mirai’s new driving experience. A 30 percent increase in the targeted range is achieved by improving the performance of a fuel cell system and increasing hydrogen storage capacity. In addition, the new Mirai will offer a stronger, more exciting, and quieter driving experience than pioneering pioneers.

2022 Toyota Mirai Performances

In essence, Mirai is an electric vehicle but never needs to be plugged in to recharge. An FCEV generates its own electricity onboard from Hydrogen & oxygen, with water being the only exhaust emission. A fill-up takes only about five minutes at an SAE-conforming hydrogen fueling station in California or HAWAII (with the station also planned for the Northeast and other areas).

Toyota is working to develop electric vehicle battery lines (BEVs) and includes FCEVs in the electrification road map. Toyota’s projects that fuel electric cell technology will one day become as usual as hybrid electrical technology companies.

2022 Toyota Mirai Design

The new platform allows for a highly rigid body that is lower, longer, and wider, with a boldly emphasized attitude by the available 20-inch Alloy Wheels. The design is more aerodynamic, but it also evocative emotionally without being aggressive; Zero-emission does not mean boring.

Mirai’s new clean and modern profile is inspired by coupes, but the new design is also more approachable than ever. By taking advantage of the new platform, there is more interior space that allows for five passengers seating for more family flexibility.

Bringing out the new and smoother Mirai shape, the smoother shape is a new hydro Blue color that has never existed before Toyota which can achieve brightness and depth in the double layer painting process.

The new Mirai interiors match the subtle tone of the exterior, the clean and modern layout infused with a little futurism without popping off-putting. The drivers of today’s fancy models will feel immediately familiar behind the new Mirai steering wheel. For that, Toyota makes the cabin quieter, enhancing the luxurious atmosphere.

2022 Toyota Mirai Specs

The simple and flowing lines of the dashboard neatly integrate the higher levels of user technology in the new Mirai, including the standard 8-inch digital combination gauge and the available digital rearview mirror that displays images from the rear camera.

The standard Toyota Premium multimedia system, which uses 12.3 inches of high-resolution TFT touchscreen, includes navigation and a 14-speaker JBL Sound System.

2022 Toyota Mirai Interior

2022 Toyota Mirai Interior
2022 Toyota Mirai Interior

 

Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Future

Toyota remained committed to hydrogen fuel cell technology as a powertrain. It is a scalable technology, which means it can be made small enough to power the phone or large enough to power the building or anything in between.

For example, Toyota installed the fuel cell powertrains to a test fleet of Kenworth class-8 semi-trucks which can attract a maximum of 80,000-lb. load. This powerful, zero-emission large rig is currently used to move cargo in and around Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California.

Even familiar riders with EVs may still not be familiar with FCEVs. The easiest way to understand FCEV is that it is a “plug-Less” electrical vehicle. There is no need to charge the battery, which can take several hours on the EV, even with fast charging. Instead, the FCEV driver only fills the tank in about five minutes, no longer than millions doing each day with conventional vehicles.

With FCEV, however, fuel is compressed hydrogen rather than gasoline. A fuel cell system combines hydrogen stored with oxygen from the air, and the result is (1) electric current, (2) Heat, and (3) water.

Fuel cell technology precedes the car with more than half a century. In 1839, a Welsh physicist combines hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of electrolytes and generates an electric current.

In the 1960s, this technology was used in America’s Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, where it provides the crew with both the power and water of the hydrogen and stored oxygen. It is widely used in a wide range of industries and applications around the world. Hydrogen can be produced locally and sustainably.

2022 Toyota Mirai, Toyota Hydrogen FCEV Technology

Fuel cells have been studied for the automotive sector, but technology has only recently become practical and cost-effective. Toyota began the development of fuel cells around the same time as the original Prius 20 + years ago, and Mirai shares several technologies & components of the company’s hybrid program.

Toyota developed a solid electrolytic fuel cell-polymer used in the first and second generation Mirai models, and to help encourage the proliferation of FCEV, the company has released a proprietary, royalty-free.

The fuel cells consist of an anode, cathode, and the electrolyte membrane. Hydrogen is passed through the anode, and oxygen through the cathode.

Hydrogen molecules are divided into electrons and protons. As the proton crosses the electrolyte membrane, the electron travels along the circuit, generating electric currents and heat. In Cathodes, protons, electrons, and oxygen are combined to produce water molecules. No other byproducts, just pure water.

The best movement Toyota could possibly be made in the second generation pregnant version of his Mirai fuel vehicle is to provide the design and clean Slate engineering team.

With a warm acceptance in the US for the design of the previous car and the infrastructure here that did not grow as rapidly as anticipated, Mirai looks like the best efforts of Toyota in front of passenger cars – as it continues to prove the value of fuel cell investing in other ways, with heavy-duty trucks, project mobility, and greening the plant assembly.

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