The Mercedes GLC F-Cell – a hydrogen-powered Mercedes GLC with plug-in charging – is now available to lease in Germany, but not in the UK. Hydrogen power for cars – and for anything, really – has plenty of naysayers, but despite arguments about its overall efficiency, lack of infrastructure and cost, we have to take […]
Hyundai Nexo Hydrogen Fuel Cell Crossover selling TWICE as fast as the iX35 FCEV did
The Hyundai Nexo Hydrogen Fuel Cell Crossover is selling at twice the rate the Tucson/ix35 FCEV did, and has 1,700 reservations in hand. Hyundai must be applauded for persevering with Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology when the world seems to be moving inexorably towards a world of EVs, with hybrids as a mere stop-gap to the […]
Hyundai Kia and VW Group PARTNER to make a Hydrogen Fuel Cell future
Hyundai and Audi are the lead partners in a new collaboration between the VW Group and Hyundai-Kia to share hydrogen fuel cell technology and develop a hydrogen future for cars. It would be easy to think that plug-in battery electric cars (BEVs) have reached a tipping point which will make them the de facto future […]
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 […]
Toyota Fine-Comfort Ride Concept is Toyota’s vision of future luxury Hydrogen car
The Toyota Fine-Comfort Ride Concept is heading for the Tokyo Motor Show previewing Toyota’s vision of a future hydrogen powered luxury car. Toyota has revealed another concept for the Tokyo Motor Show, this time a concept which imagines a future luxury car with huge amounts of space and powered by hydrogen – the Toyota Fine-Comfort […]
Hyundai FE Fuel Cell Concept previews a future Hyundai fuel cell SUV
The Hyundai FE hydrogen fuel cell concept arrives at the Geneva Motor Show previewing a new, standalone, more efficient hydrogen fuel cell SUV. The rise and rise of battery electric vehicles is continuing despite no new disruptive technology arriving to make them a properly viable alternative to ICE vehicles, and unless, or until, that changes, […]
Mercedes GLC F-Cell is, paradoxically, a plug-in hybrid
The Mercedes GLC F-Cell – a hydrogen fuel cell SUV – will arrive in 2017 and come complete with a plug-in hybrid system to back-up the fuel cell. We already have hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles on the road (FCEV) which use electricity generated by hydrogen to power an electric motor, including the Toyota Mirai […]