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At a car factory in this city named after Toyota, the usual robots with their swinging arms are missing. Instead, workers intently fit parts into place by hand with craftsmanship-like care.
The big moment on the assembly line comes when two bulbous yellow tanks of hydrogen are rolled over and delicately fitted into each car's underside.
While much of the world is going gung-ho for electric vehicles to help get rid of auto emissions and end reliance on fossil fuels, Japan's top automaker Toyota Motor Corp. is banking on hydrogen.
Toyota sells about 10 million vehicles a year around the world. It has sold only about 4,000 Mirai fuel cell vehicles since late 2014, roughly half of them outside Japan.
Is Toyota going to build the network of hydrogen-refueling stations to serve its hydrogen-powered cars?
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday November 17 2017, @08:10PM
The city has many more detailed problems than people think about. There are loads of smaller apartment and multi family homes without tenant parking. There are also many homes built in the 20's in my neighborhood with driveways so narrow they are useless. These people are forced to park on residential streets. Then add to that the people parking for the train station down the block or the large public school around the corner with zero on premises parking with well over 100 staff. Parking in New York City is a luxury.