First Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric UTR Prototype Goes Into Operation At Fenix Marine Services’ Port Of LA Terminal

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Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell electric UTR (utility tractor rig) prototype is currently hard at work in the Port of Los Angeles at Fenix Marine Services’ Pier 300 terminal. (Photo courtesy of Toyota.)

As part of a recent partnership with Fenix Marine Services, Toyota revealed that its hydrogen fuel cell electric UTR (utility tractor rig) prototype has been in operation at Fenix’s container terminal in the Port of Los Angeles since October. The “UNO,” as Toyota refers to it, uses a modular fuel cell identical to that of its Mirai and Project PORTAL electric vehicle prototypes. UNO’s first trial lasted for 2.5 hours and “consumed one fill of its two hydrogen tanks,” according to Toyota. The company adds that you can add more tanks to boost that range, all of which “can be filled in around three minutes.”

“We view the hydrogen fuel cell electric UTR ‘UNO’ as an expansion of our Project Portal hydrogen fuel cell electric Class 8 heavy duty truck development” says Andrew Lund, chief engineer, product development, for Toyota Motor North America Research and Development. “We appreciate the support of the Port of L.A. and Fenix Marine Services to allow us to demonstrate another application of Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell electric technology.”

Clean Air Action Plan

Toyota says the UTR UNO is designed to help companies like Fenix to “meet and exceed” the goals of the San Pedro Bay Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP), an initiative that was first passed in 2008 and has since been updated in 2018. The ultimate goal of CAAP is to increase “the use of near-zero and zero-emissions container handling equipment by 2030.” The development and testing of the Toyota UTR UNO is particularly important for Fenix, because the company handles more than one million containers per year. “This deployment is hopefully the first of many zero and near-zero emissions platforms throughout the facility,” says Scott Schoenfeld, general manager of Fenix’s terminal development group.

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