The automaker Toyota has been developing a budget version of its hydrogen car the Mirai.
New eco-friendly model Toyota will debut three years later. The car will be smaller and cheaper Mirai.
This publication reports the Asahi Shimbun, citing representatives of Toyota.
According to the information portal, the new hydrogen car will be available by 2019, and its premiere can be timed to start PR-campaign dedicated to the Summer Olympic games held in Tokyo in 2020.
It is expected that the price of the basic version of the hydrogen new Japanese brand will be about $ 50,000. Thus, while an unnamed model will be somewhere in the $ 12,000 cheaper than the Toyota Mirai. Thus, dimensions of the future car will be less than the Mirai. Other details about the new product are not given.
We will remind, sales of sedan Mirai was launched in Japan in 2014, today it is also available in USA, UK, Germany, Denmark and Belgium. Until the end of the year, the model will reach the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway. Only in 2016 the company plans to sell about 3 000 such cars, and by 2020 – already 30 000 units.
The Toyota Mirai is equipped with a power unit on hydrogen fuel cells, the impact of which is equal to 153 HP power Generation is the result of the interaction of oxygen and hydrogen, without combustion. From zero to “hundreds” sedan accelerates in 9 seconds, power reserve on a full tank is about 500 km.
