New Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell car review – DrivingElectric

This is the second generation of Toyota's hydrogen fuel-cell car, and is the culmination of almost three decades of development. Toyota claims the new Mirai is an improvement on the previous generation in every respect, but does hydrogen have a place in the future of family motoring? Over to DrivingElectric editor Richard Ingram to find out...

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[johnshyer]

THIS is the way we should be going. Battery power is just generating another form of pollution and is going to be even a worse choice when we run out of Lithium for the batteries. The carbon footprint of a battery is HUGE, from the mining, to the manufacturing to the disposal. they must, of course, make these operate WITHOUT batteries in the process.

[AnonNomad]

I don't know if hydrogen will match electric in selling numbers, but I think it's a worthy alternate with the quality and extent of the hydrogen infrastructure only improving.

[YananoBere]

People are so caught up on the fueling infrastructure that they're overlooking what is one of the best electric vehicles on the market. Lovely review.

[andrewmutavi]

Just love how brief and precise your videos are

[steveo]

Untaxed hydrogen, cost per mile seems to be about the same as petrol is now in the UK with all its duty and taxes. Hydrogen will be easy enough to slap big taxes on if it becomes adopted as a major fuel as it will only be available at specific outlets. In order to retain tax income, duty and tax rates on hydrogen can be brought in line with fossil fuels so cost of hydrogen rises by another 70%. Once sales of ICE vehicles stop a green tax can be added to any fossil fuels till eventually they are banned.

[VishalGupta-odmf]

Come on 🇬🇧 government, get more hydrogen filling stations and drop the taxes!!!

[TheAsdfrid]

That's adamn sexy car. Eco or not that's worth looking at

[Menga]

UK, give out incentives, UK build more infrastructure, Uk needs to step up the transportation GAME. Boats, planes and cargo

[pcr]

Priced now in line with many electric cars so real progress. If commercial vehicles go H powered the infrastructure will roll out and could be tempting. Interesting times and kudos to Toyota for researching and giving us options. Only time will tell but bet H is around in some form in the future.

[RM-iumm]

Why does every Toyota come with the infotainment system out of Noah’s Ark?

[scottkolaya]

It is a decent car if you have a small family. With its subcompact interior at 89 cu ft and its tiny 9.4 cu ft trunk, the Toyota Corolla is a bigger car on the inside. but on the outside, it's 1" longer than a mid-size Toyota Avalon. Of course, you have to put the tanks, hybrid battery, FC, etc somewhere.

[nfkworldjapan]

not to mention with a hydrogen network, 2 hydrogen busses could power an entire hospital for a day in a power outage. (eg, massive quake)

[timaustin]

A really interesting science demonstration, a really poor idea for a car. 3x more electricity used per mile on the road Vs a regular BEV and there are 10 hydrogen pumps in the UK. And all but 4 of them are currently listed as broken.

At £750k+ per pump (not station, pump), don't expect the infrastructure to make this viable to ever appear. Certainly with only 3 low-volume cars able to use it.

It's a non-starter. Toyota is simply too proud to let it go.

[Hacker]

Apologies, but has the video been graded correctly? The skin tones seem way off and the footage gives off a kind of bad HDR vibe(?)

[RobertLeBlancPhoto]

Toyota/Lexus needs to hire a new Lead Interior Designer. They've never done decent interiors. Maybe they can poach someone from Audi.

[lewisjohnston]

I agree with you i think the only thing stopping huge sales numbers is the lack of refueling options. Come on Toyota put some money into creating some refueling options.

[stephenclay]

Nice to see the price is coming down which is comparable to a full EV. But with a greater info structure the fuel is still very expensive compared to home charging around £10 to do the same 400 miles that will cost £56 in hydrogen and when you consider 80% of charging is done at home which is convenient for many people plus servicing costs maybe higher. I do believe hydrogen has a place manly in the commercial sector and buses in the near future and possibly in the not to distant future in private cars. But of course battery technology isn’t going to stand still. Interesting to see how it plays out. I do believe there’s a place for both to coexist finally the only stumbling block is hydrogen is not easy to make and requires a lot of energy hence the cost to mention transportation and storage.

[Ingle]

Did he say anything about range? How many miles per full tank?

[paperhouse]

Toyota didn't make the hydrogen vehicle lineup but they did make the BEV lineup instead. They may have given up on the FCEV.

[williamgwyntreharne]

Is it possible to use the same battery for the headlights, wipers etc as we do for the electric motor?