The world’s auto leader Toyota Motor is having a tough time handling a yet new series of recalls worldwide, but the car giant is certainly not sitting quietly. Apart from proactively solving the recall issues, the hybrid car pioneer is also focusing on a new range of conventional gasoline engines in order to keep its conventional cars at par with the new powerful rival models. While the Japanese car major has shifted its attention on the conventional cars, there is no reason to believe that it has lost its focus on the green cars that it is famous for.
Toyota Motor has yet again confirmed of its plans to launch its much speculated hydrogen fuel cell car in next year itself that was originally scheduled to happen. Toyota has revealed that it is going ahead with its launch of fuel cell car in 2015, however the car will be offered limited numbers.
Toyota Hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicle is a futuristic looking mid-sized sedan that can be compared to the current model of Avensis. Toyota has also revealed that the company will follow the design language of the Toyota FCV concept very closely for the production model. The fuel cell vehicle of FCV concept was last displayed at the 2014 Geneva motor show held in March.
The Toyota FCV concept has been doing its display rounds since 2013 at various international motor shows. The compact looking dazzling blue sedan has a shape of a water droplet and indicates its only emission that is pure water vapor. It incorporates the fuel cell technology, which is the ultimate green technology till date and uses the power of compressed hydrogen gas and emits only pure water vapor.
Toyota has already revealed a lot of details about its FCV car. It has revealed that it will be utilizing a high-density fuel stack and will have the range of 500 miles on full tank. The Japanese car major has also revealed that the tank can be fully replenished in only a few minutes.
Talking about its limited amount of release, Toyota’s European president, Mr. Didier Leroy said that the fuel cell technology will take some time to get adopted in the market. To help the adoption process, Toyota will bring in reasonable units of the FCV to the European market. Though the volume of the FCV will be limited, they will be definitely visible on the roads in Europe he added.
Toyota is developing its Fuel Cell sedan in a joint venture with the premium car giant BMW in order to accelerate the research and development process. Toyota Europe’s high official, Karl Schlicht said that the fuel cell technology surely has a long way to go, in terms of adaptability and practicality that goes with any new technology, the same thing was there for the very popular hybrid technology just 10 years back.
He added that Toyota fully trusts the fuel cell technology as the company’s ultimate goal of fully green and sustainable commutation system.
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