Toyota, Paccar team up on clean hydrogen cars for polluted LA ports

"Drivers like these trucks because they are peppy and quiet," Lindgren said.

The fuel cell system to be used in prototypes will be provided by Toyota and is an updated version of an original test vehicle operated in the ports of the past year. The new trucks will actually pair two stacks that produce about 228 kilowatts or 306 horsepower. It suppresses the power technology delivers because the electric motors that drive the wheels produce huge amounts of torque – even though Paccar and Toyota officials did not have the final torque available.

Improving performance and facilitating the job of a fuel cell truck driver, the Paccar / Toyota technology will require only a four-speed transmission, instead of 1[ads1]8-speed transfers in the typical class 8 truck.

In production, meanwhile, Andy Lund, Toyota's engineer on the project, said the trucks would have the same payload capacity as a diesel rig.