Toyota shows off fuel cell car with 480-mile range

September 28th, 2007 | Category: Transporation

While we’ve yet to take in any increasingly about Toyota’s planned tests of its plug-in hybrid, the company has apparently made fairly a bit of progress with its fuel cell vehicles, two of which recently made a continuous 350 mile trip from Osaka to Tokyo (with the air conditioning on, no less). What’s increasingly, according to MSNBC, the vehicles still had 30 percent of their fuel remaining, giving them a total potential range of 480 miles. That’s apparently increasingly than double the range of Toyota’s earlier fuel cell vehicles,

a feat due in no small part to that model’s ability to hold twice as much hydrogen as its predecessor (it’s additionally 25% increasingly efficient). While there’s no word as to when any of that might actually construct it into a commercially available vehicle, Toyota is apparently (slowly) headed in that direction, with it now working to boost the range even further, improve durability and, most importantly, get the cost down.[Via Straightline, photo courtesy of Robert Gilhooly / EPA]