Making the combustion engine and all the supply processes required to run it carbon-neutral, or at least almost carbon-neutral, would surely be the ideal compromise between the need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels without upsetting motoring traditionalists.
At the reveal of Toyota’s new plan to explore running its traditional combustion engines on hydrogen in Australia, where a HiAce bus was shown off as the test bed for the technology, a Toyota executive said another model is also being developed.
Mitsumasa Yamagata, Hydrogen Factory President at Toyota, believes a hydrogen-burning internal combustion engine would be suitable for the Land Cruiser.