Japan: Toyota has developed an external power supply system for fuel cell buses

According to Japanese media reports, Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan (Toyota) has developed a new type of external power supply system. This system utilizes the power generated by the fuel cell of a fuel cell bus (FC bus) to supply household appliances and the like. The system was developed based on FCHV-BUS, a fuel cell hybrid bus running from Central Japan International Airport, Tokyo Metropolitan Center to Haneda Airport, and Toyota City. Two jacks were installed inside the car. Output AC (AC100V, 1.5kW), can supply the maximum output power of 3kW. When the system is continuously supplied with power of 3 kW to home appliances or the like, it can support more than 100 hours.

FC bus "external power supply system" and power supply using "V2H system" imagination

It is reported that fuel cell electric vehicles (FCVs) that use hydrogen to convert electric energy to drive automobiles will also become a powerful environmentally friendly vehicle that can realize the goal of diversification and zero emission of automotive fuels in the future. In addition, FCV can provide large-capacity power supply compared to electric vehicles (EVs) and the like. Among them, FC buses with a large hydrogen load are expected to be used as mobile power vehicles such as refuge at disasters.

It is understood that the FC passenger car equipped with this newly developed external power supply system will be held in the tent of the disaster prevention headquarters during the “Extreme Power Supply Training” event of the Aichi-Toyota City Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Training held on September 2. The information display supplies electricity. In combination with a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHV) equipped with an external power supply system, approximately 20 information displays can be supplied with power.

In addition, Toyota continues to promote the research and development of the V2H system (Vehicle to Home, a system that utilizes EV, PHV's on-board battery, and FCV's fuel cell to supply electric power through the facility's electric circuit) to supply electric power through the electric line of the building. , designed to achieve a maximum output power of 9.8kW and 50 hours of continuous power supply capacity, this power supply is equivalent to the school gymnasium about 5 days of lighting electricity consumption (1 FC passenger car in a state full of hydrogen, the school The power consumption of the lighting in the gymnasium is approximately 100 kWh (12 hours on a day). In the future, as an important part of the Toyota City Low-Carbon Social System Evidence Project, adopted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Empowerment for Next-Generation Energy and Social Systems," Toyota is scheduled for the fiscal year 2013 (April 1, 2013 to On March 31, 2014, the following analogies were made. During the fiscal year of 2014, verification tests were conducted to assume that electricity was supplied to the shelter facilities at the time of the disaster.

Note: V2H system refers to Vehicle to Home, which uses EV, PHV's on-board battery and FCV's fuel cell to supply power through the equipment's electrical circuit. (