Toyota CTO Hiroki Nakajima acknowledged the market failure of the Mirai sedan powered by hydrogen fuel cells and announced that the company would shift to developing hydrogen commercial vehicles. In this respect reports Car.
“We tried Mirai but it wasn’t successful. Hydrogen stations are few and difficult to implement, so Mirai is smaller [по объему продаж]A Toyota executive is quoted as saying in the broadcast.
According to him, commercial vehicles are more promising in terms of the use of hydrogen fuel cells; This is due to the fact that such vehicles often travel on certain routes, the possibility of creating the necessary gas stations for them.
“Large numbers of trucks move from point A to point B, so you can operate stations more consistently. The most important area for the transition to hydrogen is commercial vehicles, Nakajima argued.
However, he said the company does not intend to completely abandon hydrogen passenger cars.
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