Could Hydrogen Save the Engine Exhaust Note?
Photo: Toyota
Toyota has uploaded a video highlighting the sound of the hydrogen-powered engine used by its new Corolla Sport race car and it sounds like hydrogen might be just what we need to save the engine exhaust note.
If you’re a car guy, you might have noticed that in recent years, there seems to be an inverse relationship between the performance of a new sports car and the sound of its exhaust. For example, the next-gen Porsche 911 Turbo S, the final boss of quarter-mile drag races, sounds like a souped-up vacuum cleaner.
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April 30, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Which is to say that it sounds like a car:
This video is courtesy of Toyota Times, which is some combination of a publication for Toyota fans/promotional content for Toyota/star vehicle for the Japanese actor Teruyuki Kagawa. And no, I don’t understand the existence of Toyota Times either.
Still, Toyota previously said a three-cylinder hydrogen combustion engine would power a car based on the Corolla Sport at the Super Taikyu Series 2021 Powered by Hankook Round 3 NAPAC Fuji Super TEC 24 Hours Race, which you should try to say three times fast. That race is May 21-23, and this appears to be that car.
30 April 2021 3:37 pm / 28 comments
If you missed it last week, Toyota is developing a hydrogen engine. What so unusual about hydrogen power, you ask. Well, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) aren’t new, and Toyota itself is a pioneer in this, with the Mirai into the second generation now.
Note the engine in hydrogen engine. This is an internal combustion engine we’re talking about, but using compressed hydrogen as fuel instead of petrol/diesel. FCEVs like the Mirai use a fuel cell in which hydrogen chemically reacts with oxygen in the air to produce electricity, which powers an electric motor. Hydrogen engines generate power through the combustion of hydrogen using fuel supply and injection systems that have been modified from a petrol-powered ICE.
Toyota built an internal combustion engine that sips hydrogen, and it sounds awesome
Alvin Reyes - Apr 30, 2021, 5:28am CDT
Japanese auto giant Toyota is working on a new-age hydrogen vehicle. When the words Toyota and Hydrogen are in the same sentence, the hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai comes to mind. Still, the Mirai is a hydrogen-electric car or FCEV (fuel-cell electric vehicle). It uses hydrogen fuel to convert electricity and power an onboard electric motor. This time, Toyota came up with something different.
“At the end of last year, we built a prototype that provided that ‘car feeling’ that car lovers love, such as through sound and vibration, even though we were dealing with environmental technology, said Koji Sato, Chief Branding Officer, and Gazoo Racing Company President. “It was only recently that I realized, as one thing led to another, that we could use technologies that we had on hand.”