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July 20, 2014

Toyota to offer a fuel cell car in 2015

  • Forklifts powered by fuel cells are becoming more common and fuel cell buses have been tested in some cities but this is a big boost from the world's top-selling automaker.
  • By YURI KAGEYAMA
    AP Business Writer

    TOKYO — Rocket science long dismissed as too impractical and expensive for everyday cars is getting a push into the mainstream by Toyota, the world's top-selling automaker.

    Buoyed by its success with electric-gasoline hybrid vehicles, Toyota is betting that drivers will embrace hydrogen fuel cells, an even cleaner technology that runs on the energy created by an electrochemical reaction when oxygen in the air combines with hydrogen stored as fuel.


     
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