Toyota Mirai News
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Toyota believes the Mirai can recapture the green image it cultivated with the Prius.
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Smaller, cheaper Toyota Mirai fuel-cell car coming in 2019, company says
To increase the reach of its hybrid cars, Toyota launched the Prius C subcompact in 2012 as a smaller, less expensive alternative to the Prius Liftback that's the linchpin of its lineup. Now, Toyota says it may be planning to do something similar with its Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle. The 2016...
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Toyota Mirai manga: hydrogen fuel cell beats electric cars, plug-in hybrids
Manga are comics created in Japan, conforming to a style set more than 100 years ago and still very much a part of popular culture. While they may look like no more than light entertainment, they're widely read by people of all ages—and sometimes used to market commercial products. A year...
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Hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles made from wind energy in Japanese test
Toyota is experimenting with hydrogen made using wind power.
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Toyota Asks Some Of CA's 8 Mirai Dealers To Hold Off Deliveries
Toyota is asking some California dealers to stop Mirai deliveries until more fueling stations open.
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Portable Hydrogen Fuelers Go To Six Toyota Mirai Dealers As Stations Lag
With Toyota having delivered a total of 57 Mirai sedan in October and November, the drivers of those hydrogen fuel-cell cars will be looking for stations at which to fuel their new zero-emission vehicles. But the state of California's ambitious program to install dozens of hydrogen stations is...
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The first 2016 Toyota Mirai for the U.S. was delivered in California earlier this month.
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All Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Are Compliance Cars, For Now
When the first Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids launched in 1999 and 2000, expectations for their sales were low. And hybrids indeed logged annual sales in the low thousands until the second-generation Prius came along for 2004. But the sales numbers for the earliest hybrids look...
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Toyota Mirai, Electric DeLorean Highlight Back To The Future Movie Anniversary
The 30th anniversary of 'Back to the Future' features some unusual car-related events.
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More Than 1,000 People Want 2016 Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
Toyota says it's received 1,900 requests for the 1,000 2016 Mirai build slots.
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Toyota Mirai Spawning Entire Family Of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Models?
The Toyota Mirai's chief engineer proposes a Prius-like "family" or fuel-cell models.
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Car And Driver Reviews 2016 Toyota Mirai: Not A Sport Sedan, Unsurprisingly
Car and Driver reviews the 2016 Toyota Mirai, and the infrastructure that supports it.
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A California station has been selling hydrogen for eight months.
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2016 Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Runs On...Leftover Lemonade? Huh?
Toyota continues to claim that hydrogen for its Mirai fuel-cell car can come from just about anywhere.
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Toyota Tackles Hydrogen Fueling Challenges As Mirai Launch Approaches: UPDATED
As this autumn's launch of the 2016 Toyota Mirai fuel-cell car approaches, its maker is taking steps to ensure that the small number of initial buyers and lessees will be able to fuel up their hydrogen-powered sedans with ease. Some of the 70 or so Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell SUV drivers in Southern...
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CA Fuel-Cell Car Drivers Say Hydrogen Fuel Unavailable, Stations Don't Work (UPDATED)
While they enjoy driving their cars, early lessees of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in Southern California are complaining that they can't reliably fuel them at the handful of stations now supposedly operating in their region. The stations are frequently inoperative, they say, closed for days or...
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Toyota: Negative On Batteries Because It Has More Experience Than Any Other Maker
A Toyota executive says the company's experience with hybrid powertrains legitimizes skepticism about batteries.
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Signup For 2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan Starts July 20 (Californians Only)
Toyota will begin accepting applications for the 2016 Mirai July 20.
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Hydrogen fuel-cell cars today have many similarities to electric cars. Both employ advanced zero-emission powertrains that power the wheels with electric motors, both cost more to buy than gasoline cars of the same size, and both represent only a tiny fraction of today's car market. The main advantage to fuel-cell vehicles, say the companies that are launching them, are longer range and faster "refueling" to achieve that range. DON'T MISS: 2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan: 312 Miles Of Range, 67 MPGe Last week's news that the 2016 Toyota Mirai is rated by the EPA at 312 miles of range, when...
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2016 Toyota Mirai Fuel-Cell Sedan: 312 Miles Of Range, 67 MPGe
The 2016 Toyota Mirai will have over 300 miles of range.
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Seven Barriers To Alt-Fuel Vehicles: Can Hydrogen Fuel Cells Overcome Them?
Among owners and advocates of zero-emission vehicles, few topics generate as much back-and-forth debate (to put it politely) as those cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Discussions of wells-to-wheels carbon footprint, the presently nonexistent hydrogen fueling infrastructure, and their purported...
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Toyota Fuel-Cell 'Megafactory' Matches Tesla Gigafactory In Impact
As shown by its roughly half-million references in Google, Tesla’s lithium-ion cell and battery Gigafactory is a big deal. And deservedly so. Producing the same volume of lithium-ion cells in one building in 2020 as were produced by the whole industry during 2013 should allow substantial...
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Second Toyota Mirai Video: Hydrogen Is Like First Oil Well
Toyota goes to the birthplace of the oil industry to demonstrate electrolysis.
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Tokyo's Toyota Mirai Dealer & Hydrogen Fueling Site: Photo Gallery
The 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell sedan will go on sale in limited regions of California later this year, but it's already available in Japan. On a recent trip to Japan, your correspondent had a chance to head to downtown Tokyo to take a look at the combination of a dedicated Mirai showroom...
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