Hi all, just looking for some wisdom from the forum. I have a beast of a commute and will be driving around 20k miles a year. Need a carpool sticker to mitigate travel time (I hope) and have been looking at various lease assumption and purchase options. Currently there is a program for the Mirai on…

How many stations are near you? How flexible is your commute time? When I was looking at doing this for a commuter vehicle in socal, the infrastructure for filling didn’t make sense. Too many single point failures with what has proven to be a very unreliable filling network.

Yea, commuting from SFV to Irvine. I have seen a couple of articles about stations running out, which is certainly another factor to consider. What did you end up doing? Electric?

[image] bb86: What did you end up doing? I moved out of socal, and then went electric. I would have gone electric as well if I stayed.

Ah yes, that first step is mighty tempting as well…

This thread has some good information: [image] 2021 Toyota Mirai for $17,995 with $15000 fuel card [ 0% financing purchase & no lease ) Buy/Finance We have 2 clarity fuel cell (one approaching lease return, another one has 2 more years left), I am just sharing our humble …

That is bleak - didn’t occur to me that insurance and reg would be so expensive either. Yikes.

Thanks for finding that. And we’ve had several Mirai early adopters here who shared lots of experience if you search for those too. As someone living in SoCal who momentarily considered HCF, my TL;DR is: Hydrogen fuel for cars is exciting, but far from primetime. Antiquated fueling infrastructure…

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lan_man June 6, 2021, 4:06pm 6

This thread has some good information: