Toyota deep plowing 'FCEV' to be done by no means a car, but the future development of a sound system to build hydrogen fuel vehicles because hydrogen is the real sense of renewable energy in order to eventually achieve Toyota ' A drop of oil to the last without a drop of oil 'good vision.
'Seven streams flow through the sea, Shiliuliqiancheng into the city.' When the ancients think these 14 words will Changshu vivid display, but unexpectedly a few years later, 'energy, research and development, innovation' will become another industrialized city of Changshu label.
October 30, Changshu into the autumn some slightly cold, 55 Shantang Street surrounded by a section of iron fence in which it seems very deserted, but in this cold building, Toyota Motor started a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle The 'MIRAI' demonstration in China and the completion of Toyota's first hydrogen refueling station in China means that Toyota will officially start its domestic 'hydrogen fuel' (FCEV) car.
In the Chinese market, hydrogen fuel has long been understood by the outside world as an emerging powerfuel that is used to replace traditional energy sources such as EV and PHEV. In fact, the difference between 'hydrogen energy' and other new energy sources is only fuel selection.
However, in Toyota's view, hydrogen-powered vehicles are 'new energy vehicles' that meet the definition of renewable energy without changing user habits.Obviously, Toyota is hoping to plan for a development in hydrogen fuel. At this time, how would Toyota The introduction of hydrogen fuel into the Chinese market has become the focus of everyone's attention.
From 'PHEV' to 'FCEV'
Toyota can be said to be an early adopter in the field of new energy. Toyota has been promoting and popularizing new energy vehicles, including hybrid HEV, plug-in hybrid PHEV, electric vehicle EV and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle FCEV 'All-energy' technology.
According to Takahiro Osako, Chairman of Toyota China, "We hope to carry out the relevant work in the long-term perspective. With reference to the results of this empirical study, we will extend the feasibility study to commercial vehicles such as buses and will actively explore ways to introduce into China Possibility.
Toyota China Chairman Takahiro Hong
In addition, Toyota officials said they will start using the 'MIRAI' model during 2017-2020 and will conduct a series of surveys on 'vehicle driving surveys in China', 'hydrogen fuel quality surveys' and 'quality durability evaluations' This demonstration experiment project, Toyota is precisely hope that with the government and more industry insiders to explore and build the 'hydrogen energy society' all possible.
For Toyota FCEV models, there have been many misunderstandings outside the world, they think this is a new Toyota launched a dynamic energy.Notable, Toyota over decades of exploration of new energy sources, research FCEV models and other new Energy vehicles more like the development of the ladder in technology.
To be precise, Toyota has been researching hydrogen fuel vehicles and hybrid vehicles almost at the same stage.As early as 1992, Toyota started its exploration of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. In 2002, Toyota again manufactured 6 sets of FCHV- 4 test car FCHV display car, of which four to the Japanese government, the remaining two to the United States at the University of California Irvine and Davis for research.
Toyota 'Mirai'
As of December 2014, Toyota officially launched the world's first mass-produced FCEV sedan, 'Mirai,' and successively launched it in markets such as Japan and the U.S. By the end of October 2016, the Mirai line of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles at Motomachi Plant in Aichi Prefecture, Japan The wall clearly records the Mirai's total production of 2,375 vehicles, of which 1135 are exported.
As the Toyota Advanced Technology Laboratory Chief Survey on the car prophet said: 'Toyota FCEV is by no means a Toyota isolated study of a unit with Toyota's HEV models can be very close to the internal structure, if the outside world for Toyota HEV technology How well recognized, from a technical point of view, how much FCEV cars should be accepted. '
It is understood that Toyota's hydrogen-fueled cars and hybrids are structurally identical, both through a planetary gear train that couples the internal combustion engine's power input to the motor's power input and the wheel's power output.
But the difference is that Toyota's FCEV models have both NiMH and hydrogen fuel cell reactors, whereas HEV models do not exist, which means they can not provide torque directly.
Toyota FCEV structural decomposition of the car
Therefore, Toyota's FCEV can even be treated as an 'electric vehicle', except that unlike conventional electric vehicles, it changes the battery from an energy storage component to an intermediate energy storage component, That is what we are saying is 'hydrogen tank' replaced.
Toyota FCEV automotive fuel cell stack location diagram
Toyota questioned why the outside world committed to the research and development of hydrogen-energy vehicles, it is clear that Toyota has its own philosophy of development.
In terms of Toyota, 'hydrogen fuel' is different from other new energy sources. At present, the electric energy used by pure electric vehicles basically comes from thermal power generation, and electric vehicles can not really save energy. In the future, with the popularization of hydrogen energy technology, it can As a renewable resource for cars and everyday use, 'One drop, one last drop' becomes the ultimate goal of Toyota's hydrogen fuel vehicles.
In addition, hydrogen fuel vehicles have never changed user habits.It is understood that the current launch of the hydrogen fuel vehicle 'Mirai' in only 3-5 minutes to fill the entire hydrogen tank from 0, and 600km of mileage Basically meet the user's habits for the traditional fuel car.
Toyota FCEV solve any problem?
Reading the history of 'hydrogen fuel', it is not difficult to find out that Toyota's research on hydrogen fuel is neither the first nor the only one. As early as 2002, President Bush started formulating a "free car plan" to study the application of fuel cell vehicle industrialization The United States proposed the establishment of the International Hydrogen Energy Economic Partnership (IPHE) in 2003; the second IPHE Steering Committee was held in Beijing in May 2004 and China also played an important role in the development of hydrogen energy.
In 2007, the United States General Motors Chevrolet Equinox trial run hydrogen fuel cell; 2011 Daimler Benz FCEV global tour, and invested 36 Citano fuel cell buses, the entire operation has reached 4.8 million km.
Future planning of hydrogen refueling station
Toyota said to automotive proponents, "For the most critical infrastructure in the future, where hydrogen fuel is of interest," said hundreds of hydrogen refueling stations around the world from 2015 to 2020, providing great convenience to users Conditions.
In addition, Toyota hydrogen fuel development research experts have clearly told us that the future of hydrogen energy will be fully renewable. And for the future development plan of hydrogen fuel vehicles, the Japanese authorities had made accurate expectations, which only in Japan, deadline The number of FCEV models will reach 40,000 by 2020 and 200,000 by 2050 and will continue to rise to 800,000 by 2030. At the same time, infrastructure operations and construction Costs will continue to decline.
Then faced with the trend of the development of hydrogen fuel vehicles trend, Toyota in turn will be based on the entire industry brought about what change? For Toyota, the future to achieve is a integrated manufacturing and use of the perfect system, Not just to build a hydrogen-fueled car.
At present, hydrogen fuel has been able to have similar mileage and cost of use with conventional fuel vehicles, but for Toyota, the technology to reduce product costs is the driving force behind the direct promotion of hydrogen fuel vehicles, Toyota is indeed here Deep plowing in a problem.
As early as two years ago, foreign media reported that modern executives were surprised by the pre-sale price of the Toyota MIRAI. He told the media: 'The price Toyota made is unbelievable. The price of our Tusheng hydrogen fuel version About 145,000 US dollars, while the price of Toyota 'MIRAI' just slightly more than 67,000 US dollars, our product promotion is under great pressure.
In fact, with the popularity of technology, Toyota hydrogen fuel cell vehicles compared to other hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the biggest difference lies in the cost of the future of Toyota's FCEV car will also be based on Toyota's new TNGA architecture collinear production, In order to achieve the current 30% lower costs continue.
Toyota to do in China what kind of energy revolution?
Toyota future for China's energy planning for the future development of Toyota Chairman Hiroshi Tohiro to the car prophet made it clear that: '2018 made in China Corolla PHEV PHV and PHL models will be imported into China after the successful introduction of TN, and EV into China The related preparatory work is also currently being promoted. '
As for when the introduction of hydrogen energy technology will be, Atsiro Nishiki said: 'The technology is still in Japan for R & D and upgrade, until the technology is mature and stable will consider the introduction of China'.
However, such an answer does not mean that Toyota will temporarily relinquish its market for hydrogen-powered fuel vehicles in China. It is understood that in the future Toyota will work together with domestic enterprises to develop hydrogen-powered vehicles and introduce commercial vehicles such as buses to Toyota as a priority Of the models and will take the lead in China to carry out the actual measurement of hydrogen fuel vehicles, it is clear that Toyota is still the Chinese market as an important market for energy development in the future.
If you use 'Revolution' to describe Toyota's development in the field of energy is by no means too much.As early as 2015, Toyota Motor officially released the 'Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050' strategy, which made it clear that 'the negative impact generated by cars close to zero 'And' bring positive energy for the community 'two goals.
At the same time, six new challenges such as "zero carbon dioxide emissions from new cars" and "zero CO2 emissions from factories" were put forward. These environmental challenges will surely affect the future development of Toyota in China.
The following is 'Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050' strategic details:
1. Toyota aims to cut its CO2 emissions by 90% by 2050 on average while driving a new car worldwide.
2. Reduce carbon dioxide emissions throughout the life cycle of vehicles, including materials, components and vehicles.
3. Actively promote the recycling of industrial wastewater by reducing the amount of industrial water consumed by rainwater and increasing the water reuse rate in the process.
4. In the future, new plants and new production lines to be built will reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 1 per car by about 2020 to about half of those in 2001 and about one-third in 2001 by 2030.
5. Achieve this challenge by launching two projects: the TOYOTA Global 100 Dismantlers Project and the TOYOTA Global Car to Car Recycle Project to ultimately build a recycling-based society and systems.
6. To carry out nature conservation activities, including afforestation, fund environmental activities.