The new hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai costs from £49,995 in the UK – and business contract hire from £435pm – as Toyota plans big rise in sales. Back in November, the new Toyota Mira was revealed as Toyota brought its hydrogen-powered car a big step on from the original Mirai launched in 2014. Looking far more […]
New Toyota Mirai hydrogen-powered car grows up and gets cheaper
The new hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai is revealed as a more grown-up car with more power, more range and Lexus underpinnings. The naysayers say Hydrogen as a fuel for cars is a non-starter as it’s energy inefficient with little or no refuelling infrastructure and very expensive to produce. But when two of the world’s biggest car […]
New Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cell car REVEALED
Toyota reveals the next-generation Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cell car, with a new look and improved fuel cell system. Debuts at the Toyota Motor Show. In normal terms, the hydrogen-powered Toyota Mira, which arrived five years ago, has been a real failure, selling in small numbers – around 2.000 a year – and carrying a […]
Toyota going BIG on Hydrogen – 10-Fold increase in Hydrogen car production
Toyota are building new facilities in Japan to produce hydrogen fuel stacks and hydrogen tanks, expecting hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle production to increase 10-fold in the next two years. Back in October, Toyota declared that hydrogen-powered cars will be as cheap as hybrids by the early 2020s as production levels grow and economies of scale have […]
Toyota Mirai Hydrogen taxi fleet GROWS by 50 in London
The number of hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai taxis in London has grown by 50 as Green Tomato Cars increase their Mirai offerings to one of the biggest in the world. Everything in the car world at the moment is about electric cars – and more specifically Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) – but there are also more […]
Toyota Mirai FCEV starts life as a London POLICE car
The Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle starts life as a Police car with the Metropolitan Police in London, with a fleet of 11 Mirai’s bringing zero emission patrol cars to the capital. It’s more than two years since the first Toyota Mirai cars in the UK were handed over to their owners, and as […]
Toyota Mirai Hydrogen EV hits 50k TROUBLE-FREE working miles
A Toyota Mirai hydrogen powered electric car, run by private hire firm Green Tomato in London, has clocked up 50,000 working miles in two years. All the talk about the future of cars revolves around a shift to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as more advanced solid state batteries look to be on the horizon. That […]
First Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell cars handed over to their UK users
The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car has now reached its first UK owners, with the first two cars handed over to ITM Power and Green Tomato Cars. It’s two months since the first of a small wave of Toyota Mirai’s landed in the UK, and now Toyota has found time to get them ready […]
Toyota challenges VW with plans for more hybrids and more hydrogen fuel cell cars
Toyota has revealed plans to dramatically cut its carbon footprint with more hybrids and more hydrogen fuel cell cars as it challenges VW. As car makers, rightly or wrongly, are forced to deliver cars with ever lower CO2 emissions, the world’s two biggest car makers – Toyota and Volkswagen – have taken totally different routes. […]
First Toyota Mirai hydrogen powered cars arrive in the UK
The first of the hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai’s heading for buyers in the UK and Europe have arrived on UK shores, ahead of delivery to end users. The arrival of the Toyota Mirai on UK shores isn’t of itself a huge deal, but it does mark a step-change in the car market as the first hydrogen-powered […]