Toyota sees MIRAI FCV sales up to 30,000 cars in 2020; allows free use of FCV patents
Toyota Motor Corporation targets to step up the production capacity and sales of its innovative hydrogen fuel cell vehicle “MIRAI” to 3,000 cars next year and will further increase to 30,000 cars in 2020, from 700 cars last year and 2,000 car planned for this year, according to Mr Yoshikazu Tanaka, Chief Engineer, Product Planning Group, Technical Centre, Toyota Motor Corporation.
Mr Tanaka told a forum at the Sustainable Energy & Technology Asia 2016 exhibition and Conference, or SETA 2016, in Bangkok during 23-25 March this year that Toyota’s has been continuously developing Fuel Cell Vehicle (FVC) and successfully marketed its hydrogen fuel cell vehicle MIRAI in 2014 in Japan.
“Although production capacity and sales of MIRAI is still at a limited level at the moment and the cost of production is still high while related infrastructure is needed to be improved, we still believe the capacity will increase in the future,” Mr Tanaka said.
MIRAI, Japanese for the “future”, the compilation of Toyota’s unceasingly developments on FCV over 20 years for commercial sales to cope with increasing concern on the environment and global warming problems. It is an electric powered vehicle that runs with the motor powered by the electricity produced from the chemical reaction of the hydrogen and, importantly, the emission is not a gas but only water.
With newly-developed, compact and high-performance Toyota FC System, the hydrogen fueling time for MIRAI is about 3 minutes, and the cruising range is approximately 650km under Toyota standard measurements, giving the same usability as a normal gasoline-engine vehicle. The external design of MIRAI pursues the FC’s unique function ‘drawing in air and releasing water’ in its shape.
The cruising range is proportionate to the electricity power output. In MIRAI, it is the function that can supply external powers for disasters, instead of using the power generated from the fuel cell for driving. MIRAI has a power output capacity of approx. 60kWh at a maximum with the power of 9KW, which is several times amount of usual electric vehicles, so it makes a long hour charging available and becomes our encouragement in the event of disasters.
For the accomplishment of FCV popularization and hydrogen energy society, Toyota has allowed the free usage of its 5,680 FCV related patents to all care makers even for commercial purpose.
“Only Toyota is not enough. We need to help each other to create the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle society,” Mr Tanaka said.
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