The Toyota fanatics who are eagerly expecting the new Fuel Cell car from the company to arrive towards the beginning of next year might get disappointed, as the latest reports suggest that the Toyota FCV (fuel cell vehicle) concept based sedan will be coming in the year 2016. However, Toyota Motor will commence manufacturing the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles by December this year says a Japanese report. Thus, the FCV still has high chances of hitting the global market in the 2nd quarter of 2015 and go as per Toyota’s earlier plans of introducing this all green car.
Toyota Fuel Cell sedan
The world’s automotive leader, Toyota motor first revealed its plans to go with the revolutionary green technology hydrogen powered cars at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show. Toyota is known for being the pioneer in the hybrid technology and is famous for the Prius hybrid. However, in the field of Fuel Cell technology, it will not be the first company to be producing such a car, as fuel cell or hydrogen powered cars are already available in the global market though minimal in numbers. Moreover, Hyundai has already delivered its first hydrogen powered Tucson in the US market. However, Toyota’s vision of a clean and green future mobility system and cheaper hydrogen cars are really commendable. Moreover, Toyota could really surprise the global market by launching its fuel cell car with a really affordable price tag for its high success in the market. So far, the Toyota car lovers are hoping for this to happen in reality.
Till now, the reports say that Toyota’s first hydrogen cars would be priced about 8 million yen and the Japanese car maker is hoping to bring down the price to something between 3 million to 5 million yen by 2020.
The vehicle is still known as the Toyota Fuel Cell Vehicle or FCV based on the concept name. Toyota has revealed many details about the car including the fact that it uses compressed hydrogen and mixes it with oxygen found in the atmosphere to create energy to drive the car. The car has an approximate range of 300 miles, which is three times the range of the present day all electric cars.
Reports also say that Toyota would launch a modified version of FCV concept in the U.S. but nothing about its expected price is revealed.
The Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are all green cars that have zero harmful emissions and emit only pure water vapor. This all green vehicle is more beneficial and practical than the electric cars in terms of power, range and refueling. Toyota has revealed that its FCV has an equivalent refueling time as a conventional gasoline car and takes as less as three minutes to fill up its hydrogen tank.
The company has also stated that it would sell most of the FCV units in California, as the state is planning to set up around 50 hydrogen refueling stations by the end of the year 2016.
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