Toyota working on fuel-cell power systems for homes
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Toyota working on fuel-cell power systems for homes
Kyodo News Service and the Japan Times
Toyota working on fuel-cell power systems for homes
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/ge...20051208a4.htm
NAGOYA (Kyodo) Toyota Motor Corp. is developing fuel cells to generate electricity in the home, following its successful development of environmentally friendly fuel-cell cars, in a bid to emphasize its clean technology in both its vehicle and housing divisions, company officials said Wednesday.
The country's largest automaker has tied up with automotive parts maker Aisin Seiki Co. to market fuel cells for home use within several years, they said.
It has already been cooperating with Toho Gas Co. to test fuel-cell cogeneration systems in homes in central Japan, Toyota officials said.
The fuel-cell system makes hydrogen gas from natural gas, petroleum gas or kerosene and uses a hydrogen-oxygen chemical reaction to generate electricity and provide hot water.
Toyota is also planning to take part in government-subsidized fuel-cell demonstration tests, in which many gas utilities and fuel-cell makers will participate, they said.
Tokyo Gas Co. teamed up with Matsu____a Electric Industrial Co. to create a fuel-cell system leasing program last February in a bid to sell thousands of generators annually in and after fiscal 2008.
Other major machinery makers, including Toshiba Corp., have also been racing to develop cheaper fuel-cell systems.
If home fuel-cell systems are to take off, the price will have to fall to around 500,000 yen, with improved durability, Toyota officials said. Currently available systems cost more than 10 times that figure.
The Japan Times: Dec. 8, 2005
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Toyota working on fuel-cell power systems for homes
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/ge...20051208a4.htm
NAGOYA (Kyodo) Toyota Motor Corp. is developing fuel cells to generate electricity in the home, following its successful development of environmentally friendly fuel-cell cars, in a bid to emphasize its clean technology in both its vehicle and housing divisions, company officials said Wednesday.
The country's largest automaker has tied up with automotive parts maker Aisin Seiki Co. to market fuel cells for home use within several years, they said.
It has already been cooperating with Toho Gas Co. to test fuel-cell cogeneration systems in homes in central Japan, Toyota officials said.
The fuel-cell system makes hydrogen gas from natural gas, petroleum gas or kerosene and uses a hydrogen-oxygen chemical reaction to generate electricity and provide hot water.
Toyota is also planning to take part in government-subsidized fuel-cell demonstration tests, in which many gas utilities and fuel-cell makers will participate, they said.
Tokyo Gas Co. teamed up with Matsu____a Electric Industrial Co. to create a fuel-cell system leasing program last February in a bid to sell thousands of generators annually in and after fiscal 2008.
Other major machinery makers, including Toshiba Corp., have also been racing to develop cheaper fuel-cell systems.
If home fuel-cell systems are to take off, the price will have to fall to around 500,000 yen, with improved durability, Toyota officials said. Currently available systems cost more than 10 times that figure.
The Japan Times: Dec. 8, 2005
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There was an article I read about a year ago that talked about people with bio-deisel vehicles hooking the cars up to a dyno-style set of rollers and generating power for their homes... it was cheaper and cleaner than the power coming in over the lines! I think it might be the wave of the future.
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Originally Posted by DibujoB
I didn't even know Toyota had a "home division." That's really cool.
But I wish I could have a Toyota house here... too bad they don't offer that here.
I'm still hoping for micro cold fusion technologies for cars and houses!
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