Toyota Century is not the only line of luxury rides designed to be chauffeur-driven; there is also the Crown. The Toyota Crown namesake is over 10 years older than the Century. However, it is not quite a full-size luxury automobile; it is a mid-size luxury car that used to share the Century’s squarish form – …
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Toyota is not alone in believing that hydrogen (not to be confused with hydrogen fuel cells, btw) power is the future. An Afro-European startup, NamX, together with the Italian automobile design company and coachbuilder Pininfarina with DE LUSSAC design studio is in it too.
While we were still reeling in from the wonderful CES last week, across the Pacific, in Tokyo something exciting was being announced for fans of JDM and Initial D at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2023 (January 13-15).
Remember we said Hyundai isn’t about done with hydrogen fuel cell technology? Indeed it hasn’t because Hyundai Motor’s N brand has just unveiled two rolling lab concepts, one of which is a high-performance hydrogen fuel cell hybrid model known as N Vision 74.
A group of cleantech engineers in the U.K. has banded together to develop hydrogen powertrain solutions for automotive, aerospace, marine, and distributed power industries. Together, they are known as Viritech and Apricale is the outfit’s product.
28 Master students studying Transportation Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Design School in Turin were given the opportunity to design the next-generation vehicle for Alpine Motors and this is the result: The A4810, a futuristic two-seater supercar.
Radio control aircraft have been using battery-powered electric motors for decades and so why not a full-size aircraft? Oh, right. The range. That’s not to mention the awfully long time required for recharging. Notwithstanding those shortfalls, many aerospace companies are developing battery-powered aircraft, albeit mostly – if not all – are all short-range transportation. As …
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There is a first hydrogen race car planned for Le Mans in 2024 and the car you see here, the Hopium Māchina, aims to be part of the race. The car is by HMC (Hydrogen Motive Company) group, a recently established company of French racing driver Olivier Lombard, under its new Hopium brand.
Toyota and Honda may have made headway in fuel cell technology, but they did not really built their fuel cell cars from the ground up, or at least, not quite according to a young British automobile brand, Riversimple. Riversimple is startup who have developed a hydrogen-powered car called The Rasa that goes beyond plucking out …
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We’re not going to dig into whether the two separate announcements of fuel cell car by the two auto giants were coincidence or intentional. In our previous article, you learnt about Honda’s plan for a 2016 fuel cell-powered ride, and on the same day, Toyota also made its FCV official, giving it a name and …
