Toyota Aims To Turn FCEV Into A Norm By 2020

However, Toyota’s plans do not appear to include any commitments at all to manufacturing battery-electric cars.

Just in time for the upcoming Climate Summit in Paris on December 2015, the Japanese automaker, Toyota has announced an enthusiastic goal: to virtually eliminate gas-powered only autos by 2050.

The refuelling stations have a total capacity of 400 kg/day and will form the initial seeding of a United Kingdom green hydrogen infrastructure initially centred on London.

There are now 300 Mirai cars driving and 80 refuelling stations under construction in Japan, where the Mayor, Boris Johnson, was last week (October 13) on a trade visit. That is what we are seeing today, with ITM Power embracing Mirai and hydrogen power at the earliest opportunity. “I am sure that Transport for London will provide the ideal environment for us to see everything the Mirai can do and, in doing so, take another great step towards improving air quality in our city and protecting the health of Londoners”.

Given that Volkswagen (ranked the world’s third largest automaker by volume) is responding to the diesel scandal by promising a major ramp up of plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles, and that the automotive establishment is being given a serious run for its money by zero emissions upstarts like Tesla (and, in the not-too-distant future, a few obscure company called Apple), there is very good reason for the oil industry to be anxious. As well as being exempt from the congestion charging fee in Central London, hydrogen vehicles pay no road tax and there is now no duty on hydrogen as a road fuel. Roger Putnam CBE, Chairman of ITM Power received the Toyota Mirai from Dr. Johann Van Zyl, vice president of Toyota European Union, at the Toyota (GB) Headquarters in Epsom, Surrey.

Dr. Van Zyl said, “Mirai and our hydrogen fuel cell technology are important elements in our mission to help create a future zero emissions society”. Toyota’s Mirai gas cell automobile struck the market in Japan late in 2013 as well as the firm has now gotten 1,500 local orders for the climate-friendly Mirai.