By Karen Robes Meeks
Toyota, Kenworth, the Port of Los Angeles and the California Air Resources Board unveiled the first fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck created jointly by Toyota and Kenworth, earlier this week. Ten trucks will be deployed as part of the Zero and Near-Zero Emissions Freight Facilities Project.
According to the Port, this new version offers an estimated range of more than 300 miles per fill, twice that of a typical drayage trucks average daily duty cycle. It will move cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The project received $41 million in funding from CARB.
“This substantial climate investment by the state, matched by the project partners, will help speed up the number of zero-emission trucks in the California communities and neighborhoods where they are needed the most,” said CARB Chair Mary D. Nichols. “It will provide a real world at-work demonstration of innovative heavy-duty fuel-cell electric technologies. The project offers a commercial solution to move cargo and freight around the state using zero-emission trucks and equipment that protect air quality and cut climate-changing emissions.”
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Long Beach to Decide on Toyota Power Plan
By Karen Robes Meeks
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners is expected to decide on Toyota Logistics Services’ proposal to redesign its facility at Pier B and build a renewable 2.3-megawatt fuel-cell power plant and hydrogen fueling station with dedicated pumps for hydrogen.
Toyota – which operates a terminal for receiving, handling and transporting its vehicles off-site by truck or rail – wants to make operations more efficient by consolidating office, car washing, fueling, auto body and other spaces into one location.
The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. on August 13 at the Port's Interim Administrative Offices, 4801 Airport Plaza Drive in Long Beach. It can also be viewed live and recorded at www.polb.com/webcast.
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners is expected to decide on Toyota Logistics Services’ proposal to redesign its facility at Pier B and build a renewable 2.3-megawatt fuel-cell power plant and hydrogen fueling station with dedicated pumps for hydrogen.
Toyota – which operates a terminal for receiving, handling and transporting its vehicles off-site by truck or rail – wants to make operations more efficient by consolidating office, car washing, fueling, auto body and other spaces into one location.
The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. on August 13 at the Port's Interim Administrative Offices, 4801 Airport Plaza Drive in Long Beach. It can also be viewed live and recorded at www.polb.com/webcast.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Toyota Signs 20-Year Lease With Long Beach Port
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday approved a $240 million, 20-year lease renewal with Toyota Motor Sales, USA, assuring Long Beach remains a key transportation hub for the automaker through 2028.
The new lease – retroactive to January 1, 2009 – also includes several environmental initiatives for Toyota's 144.5-acre Pier B facility, which handles between 200,000 and 300,000 Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles imported from Japan each year. Toyota first opened a facility at the port in 1981 and last signed a long-term lease in 1990. The lease expired in 2006 and the carmaker has been operating on interim leases since.
The terms of the new lease call for Toyota to pay annual rent of just over $11.2 million in 2011, with incremental increases up to $12.3 million over the next several years.
Toyota will also be required to take measures to decrease air pollution related to its operations, including the use of cleaner fuel by its RO/RO car carrying vessels.
In addition, the lease specifies that virtually all of the automobile delivery big rigs that transport the vehicles out of the terminal will have to comply with strict emission standards by 2014 – similar to requirements already in place for drayage providers at other port terminals under the port's Clean Trucks Program.
Other requirements include the use of energy efficient design on any large buildings constructed on their premises.
The port's five-member governing board gave committee-level approval to the lease on Monday and is expected to give final approval in a vote at its next meeting.
The new lease – retroactive to January 1, 2009 – also includes several environmental initiatives for Toyota's 144.5-acre Pier B facility, which handles between 200,000 and 300,000 Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles imported from Japan each year. Toyota first opened a facility at the port in 1981 and last signed a long-term lease in 1990. The lease expired in 2006 and the carmaker has been operating on interim leases since.
The terms of the new lease call for Toyota to pay annual rent of just over $11.2 million in 2011, with incremental increases up to $12.3 million over the next several years.
Toyota will also be required to take measures to decrease air pollution related to its operations, including the use of cleaner fuel by its RO/RO car carrying vessels.
In addition, the lease specifies that virtually all of the automobile delivery big rigs that transport the vehicles out of the terminal will have to comply with strict emission standards by 2014 – similar to requirements already in place for drayage providers at other port terminals under the port's Clean Trucks Program.
Other requirements include the use of energy efficient design on any large buildings constructed on their premises.
The port's five-member governing board gave committee-level approval to the lease on Monday and is expected to give final approval in a vote at its next meeting.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Earthquake Disaster Shutters Japanese Auto Industry
Nearly the entire Japanese auto industry has been shuttered in the wake of Friday's 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, either due to direct damage to manufacturing facilities or other infrastructure and utility-related problems, according to a research report from IHS Automotive released Monday.
While the report made clear that the situation in Japan was still being appraised, it pointed to at least temporary closures to facilities throughout Japan operated by Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, Subaru and Suzuki.
“Many more auto plants throughout the country are at risk of closure, some owing to temporary rolling blackouts that are being considered in order to conserve power in light of the damage to several Japanese nuclear power plants, and some through disruption to the country’s transport infrastructure, affecting everything from parts delivery, personnel mobility and shipping activity at the country’s ports.”
IHS said that in addition to those closures, and the disruption to the country’s transportation and power networks, dozens of other auto parts manufacturing facilities have also been affected.
These problems could quickly ripple outward to impact the rest of the world, IHS said, since many car makers, including those in the U.S., rely on parts manufacturers located in the hardest hit areas of Japan.
“Stoppages at those plants that produce parts that have second or third sources for manufacturing are unlikely to affect overall production very much, but disruption to production of parts that are unique and cannot be easily shifted has the potential to hit output badly at several automakers through the near term,” the report said.
Honda shuttered a research and development facility north of Tokyo after a cafeteria wall collapsed in the earthquake, and has closed several manufacturing facilities until at least March 20. Honda produces about 80 percent of its US-market cars in the United States.
While Mazda has most of its production facilities in the relatively unscathed southern parts of Japan, the carmaker idled production anyway.
Mitsubishi planned to keep its plants closed until at least Tuesday at it evaluates its supply chain logistics with suppliers in the northern part of Japan.
Nissan reported building or equipment damage at six plants, including the Oppama plant where it makes the new electric Nissan Leaf. The carmaker is assessing the impact to future Leaf supply to the United States. Nissan, which manufactures about 80 percent of its vehicles in Japan, said it is shuttering four Japanese plants until at least Wednesday, while two others will shut until at least Friday. The firm lost 2,300 finished vehicles in the disaster, and said some shipments of vehicles to the US could be delayed.
Subaru, which closed all of its domestic factories over the weekend, planned to resume production Monday.
Suzuki said all of its Japanese plants would be closed until at least March 17, when the company would reevaluate the situation.
Toyota shuttered production at all of its plants in Japan at least through Wednesday, curtailing 45 percent of the firm's global production. The car maker lost about 40,000 vehicles in the disaster, although IHS points out that this amount can easily be made up once production restarts. The company has two factories in the heavily damaged northern area of Japan.
While the report made clear that the situation in Japan was still being appraised, it pointed to at least temporary closures to facilities throughout Japan operated by Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, Subaru and Suzuki.
“Many more auto plants throughout the country are at risk of closure, some owing to temporary rolling blackouts that are being considered in order to conserve power in light of the damage to several Japanese nuclear power plants, and some through disruption to the country’s transport infrastructure, affecting everything from parts delivery, personnel mobility and shipping activity at the country’s ports.”
IHS said that in addition to those closures, and the disruption to the country’s transportation and power networks, dozens of other auto parts manufacturing facilities have also been affected.
These problems could quickly ripple outward to impact the rest of the world, IHS said, since many car makers, including those in the U.S., rely on parts manufacturers located in the hardest hit areas of Japan.
“Stoppages at those plants that produce parts that have second or third sources for manufacturing are unlikely to affect overall production very much, but disruption to production of parts that are unique and cannot be easily shifted has the potential to hit output badly at several automakers through the near term,” the report said.
Honda shuttered a research and development facility north of Tokyo after a cafeteria wall collapsed in the earthquake, and has closed several manufacturing facilities until at least March 20. Honda produces about 80 percent of its US-market cars in the United States.
While Mazda has most of its production facilities in the relatively unscathed southern parts of Japan, the carmaker idled production anyway.
Mitsubishi planned to keep its plants closed until at least Tuesday at it evaluates its supply chain logistics with suppliers in the northern part of Japan.
Nissan reported building or equipment damage at six plants, including the Oppama plant where it makes the new electric Nissan Leaf. The carmaker is assessing the impact to future Leaf supply to the United States. Nissan, which manufactures about 80 percent of its vehicles in Japan, said it is shuttering four Japanese plants until at least Wednesday, while two others will shut until at least Friday. The firm lost 2,300 finished vehicles in the disaster, and said some shipments of vehicles to the US could be delayed.
Subaru, which closed all of its domestic factories over the weekend, planned to resume production Monday.
Suzuki said all of its Japanese plants would be closed until at least March 17, when the company would reevaluate the situation.
Toyota shuttered production at all of its plants in Japan at least through Wednesday, curtailing 45 percent of the firm's global production. The car maker lost about 40,000 vehicles in the disaster, although IHS points out that this amount can easily be made up once production restarts. The company has two factories in the heavily damaged northern area of Japan.
