You Can Shower With Your Truck's Pee (if You Drive Toyota's Hydrogen-powered Overland Tacoma Sema Concept)

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Toyota loves hydrogen. The institution has agelong beaten its caput against nan substance compartment wall arsenic an alternative to building EVs, but nary of its trying has yet made hydrogen return disconnected arsenic a greenish action successful nan United States — location are still only 54 hydrogen stations successful nan U.S., mostly successful confederate California. But Toyota isn't giving up, and its latest conception takes a caller attack successful trying to make hydrogen cool: Bringing nan replacement substance off-road, and utilizing its "exhaust" water for camping. 

This conception is called nan Tacoma H2-Overlander, and Toyota touts it arsenic nan early of high-performance off-roading. The institution claims that nan motortruck packs 547 electrical horsepower, fueled by some a Mirai hydrogen substance compartment and a much emblematic 24.9 kWh artillery pack. The motortruck wears Fox offroad shocks, large ungraded tires connected mini ungraded wheels, furniture racks and rally lights and a winch — each nan emblematic overland accoutrement. But this is simply a hydrogen truck, truthful it needs a hydrogen statement trick: Preserving nan wastewater from nan hydrogen substance cell, and making it disposable for showering aliases washing campy supplies. 

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Of course, this is simply a SEMA build — these things aren't built for practicality, and nan H2-Overlander appears to beryllium nary exception. The Toyota Mirai claims 402 miles of scope from its substance cell, and it's improbable nan bigger, heavier Tacoma tin deed those aforesaid numbers utilizing nan aforesaid hardware (Toyota's property merchandise is unsurprisingly silent connected range). An overland conveyance that tin only run retired of Los Angeles, pinch a very constricted scope of cognition earlier it has to spell backmost to nan city, isn't precisely nan fearless blazer of caller trails that overlanders want to be. It mightiness make a viable campy vehicle, though, truthful agelong arsenic you don't stray excessively far. 

The H2-Overlander is highly improbable to ever participate production. For one, automakers look to beryllium moving connected to thoroughfare trucks arsenic nan basking caller thing, but nan bigger rumor present is nan powerplant. Hydrogen is simply not viable successful nan United States for illustration Toyota wants it to be, and that doesn't look to beryllium changing now matter really overmuch nan automaker thumps this dormant horse. The H2-Overlander will apt ever beryllium conscionable a concept, albeit a conception pinch nan neat statement instrumentality of pissing connected your caput and calling it a shower.