Here's Toyota boss Akio Toyoda driving a GR Yaris hard at WRC Belgium - making all the noise but emitting no CO2... Details here:
at the venue demonstrating external power supply, and I believe that, together with driving using a hydrogen engine, we were able to highlight in Europe the potential of hydrogen as an option for achieving carbon neutrality."Akio's driving was great. And the hydrogen engine put out solid torque, making it no different from a gasoline engine.
Toyota has been testing hydrogen-combustion technology for several months now, using a lightly modifiedtouring car – which uses a hydrogen-fuelled version of the GR Yaris's 1.6-litre turbo three-pot – in Japan's Super Taikyu race series and the Fuji 24 Hours. Hydrogen-combustion technology, Toyota says, allows cars to become zero-emission relatively affordably as it allows manufacturers to exploit"existing internal combustion engine know-how and manufacturing investment". to"deliver almost zero tailpipe emissions without electrification, but it does so whilst retaining the things which fans love most about race cars – the speed and the noise.