We’ve been talking about taking a road trip in our long-term Mirai hydrogen fuel cell EV since we first got the car, and yet we kept putting it off.
since we first got the car, and yet we kept putting it off. Truth is, much as we love the Mirai and hydrogen motoring, long-distance driving is a daunting prospect. You think range anxiety in an EV is bad? Most of the country's publicly accessible hydrogen fueling stations are here in California, clustered around the greater metro areas of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento.
Driving the Mirai 360 miles over hilly terrain is a stretch; to do the journey comfortably I'd need to refuel on the way. As the California Fuel Cell Partnership station map shows, there are only two stations between Tinseltown and the Bay Area. Like anyone else doing the L.A.-to-Bay run, one can choose the slower but more scenic coastal route, with a fuel stop in Santa Barbara, or the quicker but duller inland route up Interstate 5, with a fuel station midway at Coalinga.
All of this conspired to lower my average fuel economy to 65 mpg-e , far less than the low 70s I usually see at home—never mind the Mirai's 74-mpg-e combined EPA rating. By the time I made it to Santa Cruz, I had 57 miles of range left, meaning my 250 mile trip had used 288 miles' worth of hydrogen. The next morning, I headed for San Jose which, as luck would have it, lies on the other side of a steep hill.
Rolling into Coalinga, I had 220 miles of range remaining; Los Angeles' northernmost station, in Mission Hills, was only 180 miles away, which means I might have been able to make it home without stopping. I still had the Grapevine ahead of me, though, and the Coalinga station was working just fine. Besides, I've learned to treat hydrogen stations like bathrooms: Never pass a working one without using it.
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