{"id":159112,"date":"2023-02-27T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bmw-launches-demonstration-fleet-of-hydrogen-cars-that-use-fuel-cells-from-toyota"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:22:17","slug":"bmw-launches-demonstration-fleet-of-hydrogen-cars-that-use-fuel-cells-from-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bmw-launches-demonstration-fleet-of-hydrogen-cars-that-use-fuel-cells-from-toyota","title":{"rendered":"BMW launches demonstration fleet of hydrogen cars that use fuel cells from Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bmw-launches-demonstration-fleet-of-hydrogen-cars-that-use-fuel-cells-from-toyota2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BMW Group on Monday launched a pilot fleet of hydrogen vehicles, with the German automotive giant\u2019s CEO referring to hydrogen as \u201cthe missing piece in the jigsaw when it comes to emission-free mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BMW iX5 Hydrogen, which uses fuel cells sourced from Toyota and has a top speed of more than 112 miles per hour, is being put together at a facility in Munich.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Described by the International Energy Agency as a \u201cversatile energy carrier,\u201d hydrogen has a variety of applications and can be deployed in sectors such as industry and transport.<\/p>\n<p>BMW is one of several automotive firms continuing to look into the potential of hydrogen. Others include Toyota and Hyundai, while smaller businesses such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/11\/riversimple-rasa-the-hydrogen-powered-car-trying-to-take-on-tesla.html\">Riversimple are also working on hydrogen-powered cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen may have its backers, but some high-profile figures from the automotive industry are not so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMW Group on Monday launched a pilot fleet of hydrogen vehicles, with the German automotive giant\u2019s CEO referring to hydrogen as \u201cthe missing piece in the jigsaw when it comes to emission-free mobility.\u201d The BMW iX5 Hydrogen, which uses fuel cells sourced from Toyota and has a top speed of more than 112 miles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}