MELBOURNE – Toyota Motor Corp on Monday opened its first commercial hydrogen fuel pump site in the Australian state of Victoria, urging the government to encourage the rollout of more sites to boost the take-up of cleaner cars. The automaker is bringing in 20 of its Mirai hydrogen fuel cell cars to Australia in April, […]
TOYOTA UNVEILS VICTORIA’S FIRST HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AND RE-FUELLING FACILITY AT CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
Commercial-grade refuelling outlet for commercial and passenger fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) Toyota Hydrogen Centre comprises education centre, hydrogen production, storage and refuelling, and Mirai servicing facilities** Toyota has commissioned Victoria’s first commercial-grade permanent hydrogen production, storage and refuelling facility at its former manufacturing site at Altona in Melbourne’s west. Toyota Australia President and CEO […]
Toyota to unveil two new EVs for U.S. market that will go on sale in 2022
The new vehicles for the U.S. market are “the first of many,” Bob Carter, executive vice president of sales for Toyota Motor North America WASHINGTON: Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it will unveil two new electric vehicles that will go on sale next year in the United States amid a growing push by the […]
General Motors Pledges a Zero-Emissions Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet by 2035
Biggest U.S. automaker will have 30 all-electric models by 2025 and zero out corporate emissions by 2040. General Motors plans to achieve companywide carbon-neutrality by 2040 and sell only carbon-emissions-free light-duty vehicles by 2035, a major step by America’s biggest automaker to align its future with the climate-change imperatives of the international Paris Agreement and […]
The gospel of hydrogen power
Ever since Musk called fuel cells “staggeringly dumb,” there has been a fierce rivalry between lithium-ion and hydrogen backers The California Fuel Cell Partnership tallied 8,890 electric cars and 48 electric buses running on hydrogen batteries, which are refillable in minutes at any of 42 stations there. On the East Coast, the number of people […]
Toyota launches C+pod ultra-compact battery electric vehicle in Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation announced a limited launch of the C+pod ultra-compact battery electric vehicle (BEV) to corporate users, local governments and other organizations that have been exploring new options to drive the popularization of BEVs. Toyota plans to further promote the establishment of systems for popularizing BEVs, including development of new business models, and to […]
Toyota’s Chief Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped
Akio Toyoda says converting entirely to EVs could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and make cars unaffordable for average people TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp.’s leader criticized what he described as excessive hype over electric vehicles, saying advocates failed to consider the carbon emitted by generating electricity and the costs of an EV transition. Toyota […]
Toyota bets on a hydrogen future with new fuel-cell car
Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled a sleeker and longer-traveling version of Mirai, its hydrogen-powered car, but what it’s targeting isn’t sales Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled a sleeker and longer-traveling version of Mirai, its hydrogen-powered car, but what it’s targeting isn’t sales. The automaker sees the futuristic vehicle as a bridge to a difficult-to-realize future society that […]
Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?
A new report highlights the massive potential to decarbonize transport, industry and power grids — and the massive investments needed to get there. The U.S. needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential […]
Toyota’s annual global electrified vehicles sales could reach 5.5 million by 2025 – executive
Toyota in 2017 had announced a plan to sell 5.5 million electrified vehicles, including 4.5 million of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles and 1 million electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, by 2030. BEIJING : Toyota Motor Corp’s annual global sales of electrified vehicles could reach 5.5 million in 2025, five years earlier than initially planned, […]