Each bus can carry up to 600 liters of hydrogen on board and has a total torque output of 700 Nm
Toyota will be rolling out a fleet of over 100 fuel cell buses destined to ferry passengers to and from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics venue. They will be concentrated manly in the Tokyo urban sprawl and are meant to not only provide transportation services, but also act as mobile ad boards for fuel cell technology.
The bus itself was developed by Toyota in collaboration with Hino Motors and uses a development of the fuel cell system first used on the Mirai production car.
According to Toyota, “the bus also uses a high-capacity external power supply system. With a power supply capable of a 9 kW maximum output, and a large capacity of electricity supply at 235 kWh, the FC bus can be used as a power source in the event of disasters, such as at evacuation sites such as in school gymnasiums or, its electricity supply can also be harnessed for home electric appliance use.”
The bus is motivated by twin 113 kW electric motors that also have 335 Nm of torque each. It carries 10 high-pressure hydrogen tanks which is stored at 700 bar pressure; the maximum quantity of hydrogen stored on board is 600 liters and the battery used features nickel-metal hydride.
This is one of if not the first mass rollout of fuel cell buses and their integration into a working public fleet.