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Toyota Mirai Breaks World Record By Traveling 1,360 Kilometers On A Full Hydrogen Tank
The Toyota Mirai sedan established a new benchmark for hydrogen efficiency, completing a round trip of 1,360.378 km in Southern California on a single tank of 5.65 kg of hydrogen. Toyota reinforces its belief that hydrogen vehicles are as efficient as electric cars.
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For reference, the U.S. EPA test cycle gives the vehicle an estimated range of 646 km – a number that the new distance exceeds by over 110%, although there is no indication of the average speed at which the vehicle traveled to reduce consumption and break the record.
The run was conducted over two days in August 2021, but it was not officially verified by the Guinness Book of World Records until this week. The mark surpasses the previous record (although verified by another entity, not Guinness), set in May in France by another Toyota Mirai, with a distance of 1,003 km.
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The Mirai sedan – which is one of several other hydrogen cars available on the market – was launched with a first-generation design in 2015, with the second-generation version arriving in 2020.
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Currently, 20 examples are registered for Australian roads and are rented to local companies on three-year contracts at $1,750 per month. Hydrogen fuel cell technology has several distinct advantages over battery electric vehicles – such as greater range and shorter ‘refueling’ times.
Check Out the Distance Records for Hydrogen-Powered Cars:
- August 23-24, 2021: Toyota Mirai, 1,360.378 km, USA (Wayne Gerdes and Bob Winger)
- May 26, 2021: Toyota Mirai, 1,003 km, France (four drivers)
- April 26, 2021: Hyundai Nexo, 887.5 km, Australia (Brendan Reeves)
- 2019: Hyundai Nexo, 779 km, France (Bertrand Piccard)
Toyota Aims to Prove the Range of Hydrogen Cars
With the new record of the Mirai sedan, Toyota wants to prove that hydrogen-powered cars are as good as electric vehicles, and the automaker insists on this. They even tested a hydrogen-powered Corolla in several endurance races in Japan.
But with this new record, it might be enough to convince people to opt for hydrogen-powered cars instead of electric ones.
The fate of Toyota’s cars remains uncertain for now, but it shows that hydrogen fuel cell owners won’t have to worry about range, considering how far it is capable of going on a single full tank.
Toyota Mirai Emitted Zero Carbon During Its Two-Day Journey
On Day 2, Wayne Gerdes and Bob Winger took the Mirai to local driving circuits and managed to log a total of 600 kilometers. The vehicle also experienced morning and afternoon traffic on the San Diego freeway, between Orange County and Los Angeles. Thus, the Toyota Mirai completed a total journey of 1,360 kilometers without refueling the tank. During the two-day trip, the company focused on efficient driving.
The Mirai consumed 5.65 kg of hydrogen, equivalent to 244 km per gallon of gasoline, while emitting water as the only byproduct. The price of the 2021 Toyota Mirai starts at $49,500. During the two days of the world record attempt, the vehicle emitted no CO2. The company also mentions that a conventional vehicle with a standard combustion engine would have produced over 300 kilos of carbon dioxide to cover the same distance.
Upon achieving a world record, Toyota Motor North America’s Executive Vice President Bob Carter said: “In 2016, the Toyota Mirai was the first commercially available fuel cell electric vehicle for retail sale in North America, and now the next generation of the Mirai is establishing distance records. We are proud to be leaders in this exciting technology, which is just one of an increasing line of zero-emission vehicles in our portfolio.”
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