Toyota delivers 1st Mirai Hydrogen fuel-cell sedan for prime minister's official car

[nationalize the fed]

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declares that "the hydrogen era is finally starting" after he takes delivery of a blue Toyota Mirai sedan to be used as the prime minister's official car. (Shinichi Iizuka)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went for a spin in the first commercially available hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle (FCV) on Jan. 15 after Toyota Motor Corp. delivered a shiny blue Mirai sedan to his office.

"The hydrogen era is finally starting," Abe proclaimed from inside the car after going for a ride around the grounds in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo...

...The blue Mirai sedan will be used as the prime minister's official car. Toyota also delivered Mirai FCVs to the economy, transport and environment ministries the same day...

...Toyota announced Jan. 15 that it has received about 1,500 orders for the Mirai during the first month since it started accepting orders. Orders have significantly exceeded the company's expectations. Toyota initially expected to receive about 400 orders by the end of 2015...
More:http://ajw.asahi.com/article/business/AJ201501160057

Toyota to More Than Quadruple Production of New Mirai Fuel Cell Car
Thursday, January 22, 2015

On Thursday, Toyota announced plans to significantly increase production of its Mirai fuel cell car after a successful launch in Japan this past December.

The Japanese automaker said the new plan calls for production to increase from 700 units this year to approximately 2,000 in 2016 and around 3,000 in 2017.

"Considering the approximately 1,500 orders received in the first month of sales in Japan, and the upcoming launches in Europe and the United States later this year, it was decided that the supply structure should be adjusted to reflect the level of demand for the vehicle," Toyota said in a statement...
http://www.carscoops.com/2015/01/toyota-to-more-than-quadruple.html

[Gregorian]

1. It must be the oil companies who are pushing this turd of an idea.

It will ensure that fracking continues.

[nationalize the fed]

3. Tell a lie often and lots of people will believe it

Solar Hydrogen makes fracking obsolete. It's a fact.

"The oil companies" can't control hydrogen since anyone can make it,
like Mike Strizki in New Jersey.

From Scientific American:

Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever

A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen

EAST AMWELL, N.J.—Mike Strizki has not paid an electric, oil or gas bill—nor has he spent a nickel to fill up his Mercury Sable—in nearly two years. Instead, the 51-year-old civil engineer makes all the fuel he needs using a system he built in the capacious garage of his home, which employs photovoltaic (PV) panels to turn sunlight into electricity that is harnessed in turn to extract hydrogen from tap water...

..."I'm a self-sufficiency guy," he adds. Strizki, a civil engineer, has been interested in alternative energy sources since 1997 when he began working on vehicles fueled by alternative means during his tenure with the New Jersey Department of Transportation...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/


Strizki stores Hydrogen in Propane tanks

Or like Honda in Swindon UK:
(Last time I checked, Honda is a car manufacturer, not an oil company)

Hydrogen fuel becomes a practical reality

The launch of the UK’s first commercial-scale hydrogen production and refuelling facility powered by solar energy heralds the dawn of an era of true carbon-free fuel.

The gas will be generated at Honda UK's manufacturing plant in Swindon at the rate of 20 tonnes per year using a process called solar hydrolysis, whereby Hydrogen will be produced from water using the heat of the sun, and used initially to power a pair of forklifts, a fleet of commercial vehicles, and an education centre situated alongside the filling station...
http://www.shdlogistics.com/news/view/hydrogen-fuel-becomes-a-practical-reality


ITV Presenter Rebecca Broxton at the Swindon Honda Solar Park

Even You can make Hydrogen.

It's pretty damn tiring watching the same old hydrogen lies told over and over again by people that don't know the first thing about it.

[Nihil]

4. "It's pretty damn tiring watching the same old hydrogen lies told over and over again"

True.

[GeorgeGist]

2. The size of the key ...

is a real turnoff for me.