The new Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has achieved an estimated driving range of 312 miles on a single tank in US testing.
Jim Lentz, Toyota North America CEO, announced the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) fuel economy rating for Mirai at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado this week.
Lentz said: “Toyota realised in the early 90s that electrification was key to the future of the automobile. Just as Prius introduced hybrid-electric vehicles to millions of customers nearly 20 years ago, Mirai is now poised to usher in a new era of efficient, hydrogen transportation.”
Instead of using petrol, Mirai runs on electricity created on demand by hydrogen fuel and oxygen. The only emission produced by this process is water vapour.
Toyota will introduce Mirai in limited numbers in the UK and other selected European markets later this year, following its launch in Japan and, from this summer, California.
Darren - 03/07/2015 14:47
If they could figure out a way of catalyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen on the fly, and make it fit in a car, this is the future of the car!