Toyota And 7-11 Bringing Hydrogen-Powered Delivery Trucks To Japan

Toyota And 7-11 Bringing Hydrogen-Powered Delivery Trucks To Japan

Toyota is adding the 7-Eleven retail chain in Japan to its list of hydrogen fuel cell commercial truck customers. The Japanese automaker has made a deal with 7-Eleven to produce fuel cell delivery trucks. The retail chain wants to reduce its carbon emissions in Japan, a country where the national government has been supporting fuel cell vehicles and fueling infrastructure. Toyota may help the company transition at least 5 percent of its 5,800 unit delivery fleet to fuel cell trucks by 2020. Currently, hybrids and alternative-fuel vehicles make up about 15 percent of the 7-Eleven fleet in Japan. Testing and deployment of the fuel cell trucks should begin in 2019. The vehicles will be Hino mid-size delivery trucks upfitted with fuel cell systems. Hino serves as Toyota’s medium-duty commercial truck division. Toyota would be competing with one of its home-country vehicle manu...

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