Honda and Toyota have jointly developed what is essentially a mobile power station – even if it looks like the hydrogen-powered shuttle named FC Bus.
The vehicle can be used to provide emergency power to crucial infrastructure objects during natural calamities, the team behind the project claims. Its first tests in this respect should begin as early as October.
The FC Bus stands out from the competition because of the unusually high density of its hydrogen storage. Once fully tanked up, it can generate up to 454 kilowatt-hours of electricity and then share it using dedicated interfaces. You could use these interfaces to hook it up to a couple dozen of power generators, over three dozen battery modules, or multiple pieces of high-power equipment.
To top things off, the bus remains perfectly comfortable during power sharing, so people servicing the equipment can rest inside of it at any time, the manufacturer claims.