Ricardo to assist Toyota develop a hydrogen gas cell mild business car for the UK
Automotive provider Ricardo is working alongside Toyota and the Superior Propulsion Centre (APC) to develop a hydrogen-powered mild business car and to construct a prototype within the UK.
The Toyota Hilux hydrogen variant might be manufactured and assembled at Toyota’s Derby-based facility and is scheduled for prototype manufacturing in 2023. Toyota selected Ricardo as a consequence of its experience in hydrogen gas cell integration, together with for a UK hydrogen transport hub.
Ricardo’s position within the mission is to combine the hydrogen gas cell, gas storage system, and controls together with design, evaluation and validation. Ricardo says it’ll ship a turnkey resolution for Toyota to assist it set up a UK provide base and to rapidly set up low-volume manufacturing.
“Ricardo is world-renowned for its innovation [and] R&D capabilities, and is a trusted engineering associate to companies working within the international automotive [sector],” mentioned Adrian Schaffer, President of Rising Mobility, Automotive and Industrial at Ricardo. “Our engineering experience and expertise in hydrogen gas know-how and its integration into quite a lot of functions throughout a number of sectors, together with mild business autos, is supporting our development on this trade.”
“The event and manufacture of hydrogen-related applied sciences is paramount to this sector’s drive in direction of zero emissions,” mentioned Richard Kenworthy, Managing Director, Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK). “Working alongside Ricardo will permit us to shorten the event time in direction of the mixing of this know-how on this car section.”
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