Toyota Fuel Cell Car Sets the Bar for Range, Efficiency
Toyota Motor Corp.'s new Mirai fuel cell-powered midsize car can travel 312 miles on a tank of hydrogen and has a U.S. government gasoline-equivalent rating of 67 mpg.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s new Mirai fuel cell-powered midsize car can travel 312 miles on a tank of hydrogen and has a U.S. government gasoline-equivalent rating of 67 mpg. Both are industry bests for the technology, according to the carmaker.
The Mirai, which goes on sale this autumn in California, is billed as the world's first mass-produced fuel cell vehicle. Toyota and a handful of other carmakers have leased a limited number of prototype fuel cell vehicles including the current Honda FCX Clarity and Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell in the U.S., Japan and Europe for about a decade.
The FCX Clarity has a range of 231 miles and a gasoline equivalency of 59 mpg; the hydrogen-powered Tucson can travel 265 miles with a 50 mpge rating.
The Mirai will carry a sticker price of $58,300. Federal and state incentives can save buyers as much as $13,000. Toyota also will credit buyers as much as $15,000 in refueling costs for three years and provide no-cost scheduled maintenance and an eight-year/100,000-mile warranty.
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