Toyota Touts Cold-Weather Performance Of Hydrogen Fuel Cells

How did you fare in the Snowpocalypse?

The recent polar vortex over the North American content dumped heavy snow on dozens of states and brought in truly Arctic temperatures, causing widespread travel disruption.

While Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell vehicles aren't immune to snow-bound traffic, they are at least suffering no ill-effects from the cold--neither range nor performance have been affected in the recent chill.

Toyota is operating small fleets of fuel cell vehicles in the U.S. before it launches a full-blown production car in 2015.

While electric cars can see their range figures tumble in very cold weather, as battery chemistry struggles to cope, Toyota says there are no such issues with its fuel-cell vehicles--a less-than subtle hint that it still sees fuel cells as the superior option.

Connecticut-based Proton Onsite currently runs a ten-vehicle fleet of Toyota FCHV-adv fuel cell vehicles in a real-world trial.

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