Honda’s Tesla charging timeline, Toyota hydrogen pickup, fuel-cell power station: Today’s Car News

Honda maps out its charge-port shift for brand new EVs. Toyota has revealed a hydrogen fuel-cell pickup undertaking, and it’s able to take its largest U.S. port “off the grid.” And can greater than 4 out of 5 new EVs offered in North Dakota actually nonetheless gas up with gasoline? This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automotive Studies. 

Toyota is producing its own fuel-cell power for its huge Long Beach port with a distributed hydrogen system that’s fairly the great answer for chopping its emissions and power use. Beginning with agricultural methane piped in, the system not solely cuts its reliance on grid energy however can feed extra energy to the grid, generate hydrogen for port semis and new Mirai fuel-cell vehicles arriving at port, and generate water for laundry vehicles. 

Toyota additionally revealed a hydrogen fuel-cell electric pickup truck—within the U.Ok., and based mostly on that market’s closest equal to the Tacoma, a Hilux. Up to now it’s only a prototype undertaking, funded partly with authorities cash, however such a truck could possibly be launched later within the decade, Toyota says. 

Honda has set the timeline for adopting Tesla NACS charging. And what which means, it appears, is that dealerships might want to assist assist the CCS normal within the first EVs arriving subsequent yr, whereas these coming a yr later in 2025 may have the totally different NACS cost port. 

And EV adoption is becoming more polarized by state, finds J.D. Energy in a examine out this week, with EVs changing into way more well-liked in states which have supported them with insurance policies and incentives. Based mostly on this pattern, EVs will nonetheless surprisingly be the minority in states like North Dakota by 2035, it anticipates.

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