Back in June this year, a Toyota Mirai set a new world record for the longest distance travelled by a series production, hydrogen-powered vehicle, covering 1,003 km on a single fill of hydrogen in France. This record has now been broken in the United States, where a Mirai achieved an outstanding 1,360 km (845 miles) during a roundtrip tour of Southern California.
The official record attempt was closely monitored by Guinness World Records, with officials present to ensure the strict rules were adhered to and all documentation procedures were done properly. Michael Empric, a Guinness World Records adjudicator, validated the Mirai’s tank (more like tanks since the FCEV has two of them) with a seal at both the beginning and end of the journey.
During the two-day journey on August 23 and 24, 2021, the Mirai logged 152 MPGe with water being its only emission. Behind the wheel of the attempt was professional hypermiler Wayne Gerdes, who was joined by co-pilot Bob Winger, with both beginning the journey from the Toyota Technical Center (TTC) in Gardena, California after a five-minute complete fill of hydrogen.
The duo would then travel south to to San Ysidro and then north to Santa Barbara cruising through Santa Monica and Malibu beach along the Pacific Coast Highway. By the end of the first day, after two driver swaps and returning to TTC in the evening, the Mirai covered 761 km (473 miles).
Day two involved more driving loops, adding 599 km (372 miles) by driving through morning and afternoon rush hour traffic on the San Diego Freeway between Los Angeles and Orange County, before the car eventually ran out of hydrogen and coasted into TTC.
“As a Guinness World Records adjudicator for 10 years, I’ve had the opportunity to witness incredible attempts, including several distance-related feats. The Toyota Mirai’s journey without the need to refuel showcases the power of fuel cell electric technology. This technology and the design ingenuity by the team at Toyota led to a history-making moment,” said Empric.
By the end of the trip, the Mirai consumed a total of 5.65 kg of hydrogen and didn’t need to stop for a refuel at any of the 12 hydrogen stations along the drive routes. Toyota adds that the car was mainly driven during rush hour traffic in temperatures between 18-28 degrees Celsius (65-83 degrees Fahrenheit). It also emitted zero CO2, where a standard internal combustion engine vehicle would have emitted about 301 kg of CO2 over the same distance.
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Even a small amount of liquid hydrogen combined with air can explode.
But together with fuel cells, will not likely to explode. Fuel cells also consists of hydrogen and oxygen and can be used for generating electric power
Talk is cheap, but in reality…..
Petrol fuel & lithium ion batteries are also fire & explosive hazards.
I guess Toyota didn’t think of that.
Even small amount of fuel leak in combustion engine can catch fire and burn the whole car. Risks in everything. Cant avoid it.
My XV can also travels 700-800km in one continuous trip, no headache in finding refueling stations
Yours is constant AWD+SUV if what you say is true then you win liao.
My 5 years old generation XV is port injection, city driving easily 600km/tank…the new generation is direct injection, should be more efficient. Btw, I am not subaru SA…haaa
You’re totally missing the point in this article. It’s about the travel distance of a Zero Emission vehicle. California is set to go Zero Emission in 2035. Majority of EU are earlier. In that situation, your vehicle has a range of 0km… and you can’t even buy fossil fuel.
Newton’s First Law : energy gain = energy loss.
Bear in mind, nothing is free
Would be benefit to drive this. Our govt should sell those hydrogen cars in peninsulars, like sarawak are doing now.
Future hydrogen car
Welldone Miraj’s engineering team*
Push hydrogen fwd to the mainstream, exposed the longer-term benefits for users and the environment.
Less coverage given on this, another good one.
Shocking decision to build this on Lexus es platform thus giving the sensative beautiful side proportion, 3:1 ratio, firewall:frontaxle:front-bumper. 100 times better than the previous version that is base on meretricious Prius. Whoever did the signoff for this new design and technical direction, hats off to him.
*This compliment limited to Miraj only. Why? other Toyota models – plain vanilla, middling and nothing to write home about*
Time to bring FCEV.
Hydrogen is the future, not Lithium-ion battery.
Lithium-ion resource is sacred and finite, mining them is polluting the environment. Disposing used batteries is a big problem..
Sooner or later, the entire auto industry will realize hydrogen is the way for long term sustainability..
Toyota already has the foresight on hydrogen
Those 2 guys must have big bladder…
Fuel Cell Cars all the way!!!
Toyota should come more fcev vehicles.
If this sells here, will buy one
Hydrogen, Sounds Interesting
Hydrogen is much better than EV. Hydrogen vehicles have longer distance and EV have shorter distance
Not much use if there are no filling stations!!
You have tap water in your home – dont need a filling station if hydrogen is chemically spit from H2O as you drive!!