The future of mobility in the car industry.
Innovations powering trends such as self-driving, electric-car, Tesla Motors
and now Toyota Mirai, are exciting and encouraging in our global world where the
environmental stakes and debates surrounding green-energy are critical and, where
demand for productivity and flexibility is growing.
Pending its availability in fall 2015, The Toyota Mirai aims to re-imagine
its own future of mobility by competing with traditional internal combustion
engines.
The four-door, mid-size sedan uses no gasoline and promises to emit nothing,
only water vapor. It is powered by
hydrogen, can be re-fueling in about five minutes, and can travel up to 300
miles on a full tank.
Instead of drive battery, Mirai’s fuel cell stack combines hydrogen gas
from tanks with oxygen to produce electricity that powers the electric motor.
Its system can provide Mirai with a maximum output of 153hp, accelerating
from 0-60 in 9.0 seconds and delivering a passing time of 3 seconds from 25-40
mph.
Mirai will also feature a set of standard onboard safety technologies,
including vehicle pre-collision, blind spot monitor, lane departure alert,
drive start control and automatic high beams.