Jun 25, 2009
Toyota Still Committed to Producing a Hydrogen Vehicle
At a recent shareholders’ meeting in Japan, Toyota executives stated their continued commitment to bringing a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle to market in the near future. The previous forecast was for production to start in 2014, but they’ve revised their timeline, pushing production back a year to 2015.
That still seems awfully soon for a full-scale production of a hydrogen car, but maybe Toyota knows something we don’t. Hydrogen fuel cells have a lot of potential, but the technology and infrastructure is still way behind electric vehicles.
We’re more optimistic about the plug-in hybrid and all-electric models they’re planning for release much sooner, but we’ll be interested to hear more about the HFC model and to see if they stick to their timeline.
via AFP and Autoblog Green
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