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Hino aims for 600km range with fuel cell truck<br />
HINO AND TOYOTA have agreed to<br />
jointly develop a heavy-duty fuel cell<br />
truck, and to proceed with initiatives<br />
toward its practical use through<br />
verification tests and other means.<br />
Through their respective<br />
‘Environmental Challenges’, Hino<br />
and Toyota have signalled their<br />
intentions to reduce CO2 emissions<br />
by 2050 and are both developing<br />
electric vehicle technologies for<br />
widespread use in society.<br />
In order to achieve further<br />
reductions in CO2 emissions, Hino says<br />
major improvements will be required<br />
in the environmental performance<br />
of heavy-duty trucks, which account<br />
for about 60 per cent of the total CO2<br />
emissions from commercial vehicles<br />
in Japan.<br />
For the electrification of commercial<br />
vehicles, the optimum powertrain must<br />
be adopted to ensure both outstanding<br />
environmental performance and<br />
just-right practicality as a business<br />
vehicle in terms of cruising range, load<br />
capacity, and other aspects depending<br />
on the usage.<br />
Heavy-duty trucks are typically used<br />
for highway transportation and are<br />
therefore required to have sufficient<br />
cruising range and load capacity as<br />
well as fast refuelling capability.<br />
For this reason, fuel cell vehicles that<br />
run on hydrogen with its higher energy<br />
density are considered effective.<br />
The heavy-duty fuel cell truck in this<br />
joint development project is based<br />
on Hino Profia, which is known in<br />
Australia as the Hino 700 Series.<br />
According to Hino, it is being<br />
developed taking maximum advantage<br />
of the technologies both Toyota and<br />
Hino have developed over the years.<br />
The chassis is specially designed<br />
with the optimum packaging for a<br />
fuel cell vehicle, and steps are being<br />
taken through comprehensive weight<br />
reduction to ensure a sufficient load<br />
capacity, Hino says.<br />
The powertrain is equipped with<br />
two Toyota fuel cell stacks that have<br />
been newly developed for Toyota’s next<br />
Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle<br />
and includes vehicle driving control<br />
that applies heavy-duty hybrid vehicle<br />
technologies, developed by Hino.<br />
The cruising range will be set at<br />
approximately 600km, aiming to meet<br />
high standards in both environmental<br />
performance and practicality as a<br />
commercial vehicle.<br />
Toyota and Hino have both<br />
positioned hydrogen as an important<br />
energy source for the future and<br />
have worked together on developing<br />
technologies and spreading and<br />
innovating fuel cell vehicles for over 15<br />
years since their joint demonstration<br />
trials of the fuel cell bus in 2003.<br />
“This is an exciting project for Hino<br />
at a global level,” says Daniel Petrovski,<br />
product strategy manager for Hino<br />
Australia.<br />
“Here in Australia, Hino is committed<br />
to the Hino Environmental Challenge<br />
2050 and has proven to be a leader<br />
in the reduction of emissions of<br />
commercial vehicles.<br />
“We were the first truck manufacturer<br />
in Australia to introduce a hybrid<br />
commercial vehicle, the Hino 300 Series<br />
Hybrid, in 2007.<br />
“It is the best-selling diesel-electric<br />
commercial vehicle in Australia with<br />
over 600 sales.”<br />
Hino Environmental Challenge<br />
2050 was established in 2017, of which<br />
one part is the New Vehicle Zero CO2<br />
Emissions Challenge, through which<br />
Hino aims to cut its average carbon<br />
dioxide emissions from new vehicles<br />
by 90 per cent (compared to 2013<br />
levels).<br />
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