冷冻泵。燃料成本飙升。转售价值暴跌。这就是为什么购买丰田氢梦想的所有者感到欺骗和误导。
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作者 : 罗布·斯图普夫
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Toyota's Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits,
Call For Buybacks
Frozen pumps. Skyrocketing fuel costs. Plummeting resale
values. Here's why owners who bought into Toyota's hydrogen dream
feel 'cheated and misled.'
Apr 18, 2024 at 12:18pm ET
By: Rob
Stumpf
Mirai means 'future' in Japanese. When Toyota made a big bet that
hydrogen was the future of driving, naming its first
hydrogen-powered Fuel Cell EV the Toyota Mir
ai seemed a fitting move for those huge ambitions.
Things haven't worked out that way. As early adopters found out,
the Mirai wasn't the ideal future that so many wanted it to be. In
fact, the
crumbling infrastructure and depreciation have some
owners calling on Toyota for a buyback—and even filing lawsuits
over their experience. Today, many of them are furious, feeling
deceived over buying a car they felt had immense potential but
never got the fueling infrastructure necessary to back it up.
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Toyota's big bet on hydrogen
More than any other automaker, Toyota put a huge bet on hydrogen
fuel cell cars starting in the early 1990s. But fueling has proven
to be a major challenge, and so far, the future of hydrogen for
passenger cars looks grim.
'There [is] no longer any hydrogen fuel available in San Francisco
where I live. Toyota continues to sell this vehicle. How is this
acceptable?' said Shawn Hall, one of several Mirai owners who spoke
to InsideEVs. 'Besides the South San Francisco station, the next
closest stations are 40 miles one way to Sunnyvale, or 15 miles
[across either the Golden Gate or Bay Bridges, which means] paying
a bridge toll of $8.75 or $7 in addition to traffic, time, and
wasted fuel. And even though the online map or Fuel app within the
Mirai console says there is available fue。
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Contact the author: rob.stumpf@insideevs.com
