Homeowners and lessees of the hydrogen automobile haven’t all been glad with their expertise
Quite a lot of individuals who personal and lease the Toyota Mirai hydrogen automobile have filed a category motion lawsuit in opposition to the automaker because of their dissatisfaction with their expertise with the automobile.
The lawsuit alleges that the automaker misled clients
In accordance to the lawsuitthe automaker misled Toyota Mirai clients when it got here to the truth of proudly owning the hydrogen powered automobile.
The grievance states that the Japanese firm and its gross sales groups led potential clients of the fuel cell cars to consider that “hydrogen refueling is available, seamless, and comparable to refueling with gasoline.” That mentioned, the grievance additionally states that this was by no means the expertise of these buyer.
The grievance pointed to hydrogen gas shortages and that H2 was more and more tough to acquire.
Hydrogen gas availability points made Toyota Mirai possession “unsafe”
Within the submitting, the plaintiffs mentioned that the struggles with hydrogen availability to gas the vehicles, it could make utilizing the autos “unsafe, unreliable and inoperable.” They said that they might discover themselves on longer drives merely to attempt to find a refueling station. Moreover, simply because a station was discovered, it didn’t imply that they might have entry to any gas.
A number of points had been recognized as standing in the way in which of the hydrogen automobile homeowners’ skill to refuel, together with stations that had been recurrently closed, incompatible gas playing cards, damaged gear, and others that would lead proprietor to expire of H2 and wish to make use of different transportation whereas their very own autos had been towed.
Rising value of hydrogen gas
Except for struggles to acquire the hydrogen, the price of the gas has additionally seen a fast rise. Although the Toyota Mirai is offered with a $15,000 gas card as an incentive to automobile possession, the lawsuit claims that the quantity will not final three years as was marketed by the automaker.
The plaintiffs additionally identified that the vary they’re experiencing doesn’t match the estimates shared with them by the automaker earlier than they introduced the vehicles dwelling.
Every of those points have been reducing into the resale values of the hydrogen automobile, which falls to solely 19.4 p.c of its worth after 5 years of use.
