We learn from that Toyota will finally be going ahead with its previously announced incursion into the realm of commercially available hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
According to the Japan Times, the car they plan to break into the market with is going into Japanese production sometime in mid-December, even if the refueling infrastructure is not particularly developed anywhere around the world at the moment, though efforts are being made in many regions.
The Japanese automaker will first sell its hydrogen car at the equivalent of $78,000 or €57,200, though the source article says the goal is to get the price down to around half that “in the 2020s.”
Currently, the two main issues facing fuel-cell EVs are the lacking hydrogen fueling station infrastructure and comparably high price – fuel-cell cars can be and usually are more expensive than regular electrics.
However, since some experts (from more than half a decade ago) said covering the entire continent (of Europe) with hydrogen stations would be five times cheaper than doing so with EV charging points, there’s still some trace of a sound argument in there…
By Dan Mihalascu
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