Toyota FCV-R - Toyota hydrogen car comes in 2015

In 2011, Toyota had already seen strong to put on the development of hydrogen technology with the FCV-R Concept. In now let the Japanese know that these investments will pay off with a production model by 2015 will be in the showroom. Bear fruit in this technology The Toyota FCV-R is a precursor thereof.

Toyota has more than one million hybrid cars produced. The Japanese are known as one of the pioneers in the field of modern technologies. In virtually every fire and raw material philosophizing or it can propel a car, as well as hydrogen. There are more car manufacturers with the use of hydrogen have experimented, but Toyota is one of the first who wants to implement this technique for mass production. Since Toyota began in 1992 with the development of hydrogen technology, there is a lot of progress. This latest generation of this Toyota FCV-R has a power density of 3.0 kW per liter, three times more than the FCV-R concept from 2008. FCV-R stands for Fuel Cell Vehicle Reality and Revolution and is a fuel cell hybrid. He converts hydrogen into water and oxygen, and takes its energy from there. The current Toyota FCV-R, a range of 700 miles without having to divest. CO ² Toyota indicates that the application of the fuel cell, the ease of use is not absolutely in the way.

It is clear that there is a hefty price tag on the series model will hang. Toyota talks about a price of "less than € 80 000, -. The question of whether certain Toyota hybrid with that price the consumer is going to win for them, with the development of the 'average'. Toyota has and will in 2020 a full range of models bring confidence as fuel cell hybrid on the market and thus tens of thousands of copies a year set off.