A Toyota hydrogen soon.

Like GM, Honda, Mercedes, BMW and Mazda, the Japanese manufacturer Toyota has announced the commercialization of its future hydrogen car for 2014/2015, and most surprising is its price, about 50,000 $ and Yoshihiko Masuda, director of advanced technologies at Toyota drives the point home by ensuring this price will cover the cost of production of the car, in other words, that Toyota will not lose money unlike the Prius and Lexus Version "H".

Though this future hydrogen car is more expensive, it has the same autonomy as the thermal equivalent version, and emits only water vapor.

This performance evolution of these engines is achieved through hard work of engineers. They have managed to reduce by one third the amount of platinum used, thereby significantly lowering manufacturing costs. A fuel cell is in fact composed of very thin layers of plastic coated with platinum and being sandwiched between metal plates. The assembly is then fed to one side in hydrogen and oxygen in the other, causing a chemical reaction creating electricity and water.

a test on California roads, was used to measure the autonomy offered by the reservoir of six kilograms of compressed hydrogen. The verdict is 430 miles, which is equivalent to a consumption of 0.92 US gallon of gasoline per 60 miles if it is based on converting a kilogram of hydrogen = 1 gallon of gasoline.

But for now, only GM (with the Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell), Honda (with the FCX Clarity) and Mercedes (Class B) have a real edge in the field of fuel cell. Remains a key point to the emergence of these models is the supply. Indeed, the establishment of stations and their hydrogen supply is very expensive.
 
 
 

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Hydrogen Toyota Highlander