Right now, Toyota borrows the platform for the sports car Supra from BMW. In the future, however, the two car brands will merge even more for hydrogen cars.
Hydrogen cars both have and have had more than difficulty breaking through. But now BMW and Toyota are trying to achieve a breakthrough for the car type.
Together, the two car brands will invest in the hydrogen cars of the future, so that the car type can become more competitive.
This is written by the business media Nikkei Asia .
Separately, Toyota and BMW have already started the development of the hydrogen car. Both are even experimenting with internal combustion engines that burn hydrogen instead of petrol or diesel.
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According to Nikkei Asia, the new collaboration means that Toyota will supply BMW with fuel cells, BMW must in return develop the platform itself, on which the future hydrogen cars will be built.
BMW has, to a limited extent, built the iX5 Hydrogen, which is currently functioning as a choral laboratory. But the car is already proving to be cheaper than other X5 versions.
At home, the Toyota importer stubbornly sticks to the hydrogen car Mirai. Even though there is not a single hydrogen station left in Denmark. Nor can criticism in connection with Toyota's sponsorship of the Olympics, which this year took place in the French capital Paris, make the Japanese turn their backs on technology.
Critics would otherwise have Toyota expelled from the Olympics because the brand used the occasion as a showcase for the hydrogen car in particular. In an open letter to the Olympic organizer, 120 academics complained that the hydrogen cars are hindering and delaying the green transition. Read more about it here .
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