Toyota to Launch Green Hydrogen Car in India on Pilot Basis

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March 15, 2022

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by Rajkamal Narayanan (Financial Express) Come March 16, and Japanese carmaker Toyota will launch a green hydrogen-based project in India, a step towards introducing an alternative fuel car, the Centre is agressively looking for. “There will be a pilot project on March 16, in New Delhi where a Toyoto car, manufactured in Japan, will be launched. The car will run on green hydrogen,” Nitin Gadkari, minister for national highways and road transport said at CII Webinar.

While Gadkari have been for quite some time stressing on flexi engine-run cars in view of mitigating environmental hazards, on Saturday, he said, such cars would be seen on the Indian roads in the next six months.

India would soon have cars with flexi engines running on either 100% ethanol or 100% petrol. Though such cars would have hybrid arrangements to run on electric as well. “Hyundai, Suzuki and Toyoto have promised me to launch their products in the market as soon as possible. Cars with flexi engines will be on the roads in the next six months,” Gadkari said.

The government was in a bid to promote operation of construction equipment with bio- CNG and bio-LNG. It was looking forward to fast-track the use of alternative fuel, in transportation in view of the emerging energy criss, especially in the wake of the Ukraine-Russia war.

“Coal is a costly fuel and not commercially-viable. Although ethanol can be produced in abundance, especially in Eastern India with rice bran, green hydrogen would be most efficient,” Gadkari said. READ MORE

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