The truck will move goods from select Port of LA and Long Beach terminals to surrounding rail yards and warehouses for distribution.
Toyota estimates the vehicle’s daily trips will total around 200 miles — short, frequent route patterns designed to test the duty-cycle capabilities of the fuel cell system.
Toyota unveiled its plan to build a fleet of heavy-duty, zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell trucks last April.
The concept truck generates more than 670 horsepower and 1,325 pound-feet of torque from two Mirai fuel cell stacks and a 12kWh battery.
That said, hydrogen hasn’t taken off as a propulsion technology due to severe shortage in fueling stations.
Toyota has said it plans to sell buses powered by hydrogen fuel cells in Tokyo this year, in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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