{"id":187878,"date":"2022-06-02T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=187878"},"modified":"2022-06-02T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T13:56:06","slug":"kerala-registers-car-that-runs-on-hydrogen-fuel-1st-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-registers-car-that-runs-on-hydrogen-fuel-1st-in-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala registers car that runs on hydrogen fuel \u2014 1st in country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first hydrogen-powered car named \u201cToyota Mirai\u201d was registered in Kerala in April 2022. With this, Kerala has become one of the select few states to allow the registration of such cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The registered vehicle is exempt from taxation because it will be used for research and development purposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Toyota Mirai?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toyota Mirai is India\u2019s first <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-to-inaugurate-pilot-project-for-hydrogen-based-advanced-fuel-cell-electric-vehicle-fcev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fuel-cell electric vehicle(FCEV).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Working<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The car\u2019s powertrain works by breaking down hydrogen into oxygen and water that generates electricity. There is a small battery that stores the electricity and then this electricity is used to power the electric motors. The byproduct is water which is emitted from the vehicle\u2019s tailpipe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Benefits of Toyota Mirai<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Less Refuelling Time: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can be refuelled like a conventional combustion engine vehicle at a hydrogen station.Refuelling time for the car is five minutes and can run 600 kilometres on a full tank.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Smaller Battery:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The electric battery in Mirai is 30 times smaller than what conventional electric vehicles use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Faster Charging: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are a lot faster in charging compared to charging a large battery to its full range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span><b>e \u201cKerala registers car that runs on hydrogen fuel \u2014 1st in-country\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 1st June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The first hydrogen-powered car named \u201cToyota Mirai\u201d was registered in Kerala in April 2022. With this, Kerala has become one of the select few states to allow the registration of such cars. Note: The registered vehicle is exempt from taxation because it will be used for research and development purposes.\u00a0 What&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-registers-car-that-runs-on-hydrogen-fuel-1st-in-country\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kerala registers car that runs on hydrogen fuel \u2014 1st in country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-187878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704724707},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}