Toyota Motor North America and Hino USA work together on a heavy fuel cell truck for the North American market. The experienced truck builder Hino developed the new XL series, a conventional Class 8 truck. This truck is being tested with Toyota fuel cell technology. Apart from this developement both partners als work on a…… Continue Reading
Hino has presented a Class-8 heavy truck for the USA market during a work truck show. It is the Hino XL series, a truck that is going to be assembled in the USA. The trucks come as class 7 and 8 in different wheelbases. The trucks will be powered by Hino’s 9.9 litre A09 engine.…… Continue Reading
As sales of their fuel cell passenger car fall short, Toyota is looking for other ways to justify it’s considerable investments in fuelcell technology. Therefore, the company introduces a class 8 truck concept which enjoys two fuel cell systems derived from passenger car Toyota Mirai. The truck generates 670 hp and can handle gross vehicle…… Continue Reading
Toyota Motor Corporation will begin to sell fuel cell buses (FC buses) under the Toyota brand from early 2017. Having already undergone repeated field tests for practical use, the Bureau of Transportation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to utilize two of these FC buses (model name: Toyota FC Bus) as fixed-route buses. Toyota plans…… Continue Reading
PSA has launched the new Peugeot Expert, Citroën Jumpy and Toyota Proace vans. The new mid-sized van is completely new and will also be sold as a passenger car. In that case the names are Peugeot Traveller and Citroën Spacetourer. The Toyota will be called Proace in both versions. The new vehicles will be built…… Continue Reading
Before the end of this year Toyota comes with the ProAce van. In fact this is a rebadged Sevel van that we know from Fiat, Citroën and Peugeot. It is clear that the Hi-Ace was no big succes on the European market and that is why the Japanese went shopping in Europe. The ProAce comes…… Continue Reading
PSA (Peugeot-Citroen) and Toyota Motor have made an agreement for the French manufactorer to build vans for Toyota for the European market. The Exper and Jumpy models will come with a Toyota badge in the seccond half of next year. It looks like badge engineering is very hip these days. We already saw the Opel…… Continue Reading
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