{"id":5462,"date":"2017-10-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2017\/10\/23\/hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck-tested-on-haulage-routes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:47:31","slug":"hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck-tested-on-haulage-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2017\/10\/23\/hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck-tested-on-haulage-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen fuel cell truck tested on haulage routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Motor North America, Inc.\u2019s (TMNA) Class 8 \u2018Project Portal\u2019 will move goods from Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach terminals to surrounding rail yards and warehouses for distribution, while capturing real world performance data<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToyota has led the way in expanding the understanding and adoption of fuel cell technology,\u201d said TMNA executive vice president, Bob Carter. \u201cFrom the introduction of the Mirai passenger vehicle to the creation of the heavy-duty fuel cell system in Project Portal, Toyota continues to demonstrate the versatility and scalability of the zero-emission fuel cell powertrain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>12kWh battery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The heavy-duty truck generates more than 670 horsepower and 1,325-pound feet of torque from two Mirai fuel cell stacks and a 12kWh battery.<\/p>\n<p>Its gross combined weight capacity is 80,000lbs and its estimated driving range is more than 200 miles per fill, under normal operation.<\/p>\n<p>The truck has already completed more than 4,000 successful development miles, while pulling heavy cargo and emitting only water vapour, said Toyota.<\/p>\n<p><strong>200 miles daily<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s estimated the truck\u2019s daily trips will total around 200 miles. As the feasibility study progresses, longer haul routes will be introduced.<\/p>\n<p>Initial operations will be managed by the TMNA team, in collaboration with Toyota\u2019s Service Parts Accessories Operations group and its drayage provider, Southern Counties Express (SCE).<\/p>\n<p>Heavy duty vehicles make up a significant percentage of the annual emissions output at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A zero-emissions truck prototype will serve Los Angeles haulage routes to test its hydrogen fuel cell system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}