Toyota Aims to Promote Hydrogen on the Moon in 2029
This page is translated from the original post "Toyota veut promouvoir l’hydrogène sur la Lune en 2029" in French.

Here’s a great advertising campaign: Toyota is developing the LUNAR CRUISER, a hydrogen rover set to operate on the Moon in 2029.
The decision isn’t recent: since 2019, Japan has been aiming to shine on the international scene and has announced its intention to send a manned mission to the Moon in 2029. An ambitious political project that requires strong industrial support.
Toyota, a Japanese tycoon going far beyond the automotive industry, has positioned itself to produce a rover capable of carrying a crew of two astronauts, free from their heavy suits and protected from the deadly cosmic radiation. The vehicle will be able to “provide an environment similar to that on Earth (…) and protect against temperatures oscillating between 120°C during the day and -170°C at night.” Quite a thermal range!

Its dimensions will be very unusual for a “land” vehicle: 6 meters long, 5.2 meters wide, and 3.8 meters high, roughly the size of “two minivans,” according to Toyota. Inside, the space will be 7 m2, and the autonomy (energy and pressurized air) is expected to last 30 days, thanks to a hydrogen fuel cell. This is a fantastic promotional campaign for this technology.

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