At the end of 2019, Toyota had sold over 10,000 Mirais. Former European Parliament President Pat Cox estimated that Toyota would initially lose about $100,000 on each Mirai sold. The initial sale price in Japan was about 7 million yen ($69,000).
The car has a range of 312 mi (502 km) and takes about five minutes to refill its hydrogen tank. Toyota launched the world's first dedicated mass-produced fuel cell vehicle (FCV), the Mirai, in Japan at the end of 2014 and began sales in California, mainly the Los Angeles area and also in selected markets in Europe, the UK, Germany and Denmark later in 2015. Hyundai Nexo, which succeeded the Tucson in 2018, was selected as the "safest SUV" by the Euro NCAP in 2018 and was rated as "Good" in a side crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) In 2013 the Hyundai Tucson FCEV was launched, it was a conversion of the Tucson and available in left-hand drive only and became the first commercially mass-produced vehicle of its type in the world. The Hyundai Nexo is a hydrogen fuel cell-powered crossover SUV The drawbacks of hydrogen use are high carbon emissions when hydrogen is produced from natural gas, capital cost burden, low energy content per unit volume at ambient conditions, production and compression of hydrogen, the investment required in filling stations to dispense hydrogen, transportation of hydrogen to filling stations, and lack of ability to produce or dispense hydrogen at home. The benefits of hydrogen technology are fast refueling time (comparable to gasoline) and long driving range on a single tank. Various technologies are being developed that aim to deliver costs low enough, and quantities great enough, to compete with hydrogen production using natural gas. It can be produced by thermochemical or pyrolytic means using renewable feedstocks, but the processes are currently expensive. Īs of 2019, 98% of hydrogen is produced by steam methane reforming, which emits carbon dioxide. As of December 2020, there were 31,225 passenger FCEVs powered with hydrogen on the world's roads. Most companies that had been testing hydrogen cars have switched to battery electric cars Volkswagen has expressed that the technology has no future in the automotive space, mainly because a fuel cell electric vehicle consumes about three times more energy than a battery electric car for each mile driven. The Honda Clarity was produced from 2016 to 2021. Īs of 2021, there are two models of hydrogen cars publicly available in select markets: the Toyota Mirai (2014–), which is the world's first mass-produced dedicated fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), and the Hyundai Nexo (2018–).
Power is generated by converting the chemical energy of hydrogen to mechanical energy, either by reacting hydrogen with oxygen in a fuel cell to power electric motors or, less commonly, by burning hydrogen in an internal combustion engine. Hydrogen vehicles include hydrogen-fueled space rockets, as well as automobiles and other transportation vehicles. Ī hydrogen vehicle is a type of alternative fuel vehicle that uses hydrogen fuel for motive power. The Mirai is based on the Toyota fuel cell vehicle (FCV) concept car (shown). The 2015 Toyota Mirai is one of the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to be sold commercially.
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