Toyota Motor Corporation could be moving into the next phase of its alternative fuels strategy. Spied in the US is this Mark X Zio, a car well known in Japan but with no existence elsewhere, much less in the States. The spied vehicle is a left-hand-driven type, which is so not Japanese and it also runs on hydrogen. Toyota is of course very well known for its world-leading hybrid technology but as we all know, hybrids are just a step toward a certain solution. Is Toyota, like BMW, betting on hydrogen as the final solution then?
Other automakers will be extremely interested in this vehicle if it gets shown publicly and still runs on hydrogen, because Toyota is a pioneer and leader of the hybrid cell system. And the more of them adopt hydrogen the better the infrastructure will become.
Toyota Mark X Zio hydrogen fuel cell vehicle Spied
Toyota Mark X Zio Hydrogen spy pic
Will Hydrogen Trump Biofuels and Gas?
By Thami Masemola
July 26, 2008 8:00 PM
Filed Under: General, Japanese, Spy Photos, Technology, Toyota
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daviepops
July 27, 2008 2:56 PM
IMO hydrogen vehicles will not make it to mass production as the infrastructure required to refuel them will never happen ... plus there's the other problems of producing and storing hydrogen in the volumes needed, storage space in the vehicles themselves, and the inherent dangers in dealing with such a highly volatile gas ... electric is a much more attractive alternative auto power source and that seems to be where all the smart money is being invested
firedog25
July 31, 2008 5:53 AM
So appearantly you haven't seen the home hydrogen generators that Honda is working on in conjunction with Plug Power.
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