TOKYO MOTOR SHOW: Toyota previews FCV with 1000km range
Japanese car-maker rips the covers off hydrogen-powered Fine-Comfort Ride conceptToyota will expand its hyrdrogen fuel-cell reach at this year’s Tokyo motor show with a brace of concept vehicles.
The car-maker has released preliminary details of the Fine-Comfort Ride sedan, a van-like passenger car concept with seating for six (including four captain’s chairs that swivel to create a lounge layout) and a driving range in excess of 1000km.
The lack of an internal combustion engine liberates acres of interior space, Toyota says, the concept car using individual in-wheel motors and a hydrogen stack for forward propulsion. The Fine-Comfort Ride’s angular body sits atop a new-generation electric vehicle platform.
The car’s layout and quasi-luxury positioning hints it will have autonomous capabilities. The concept employs a diamond layout where the centre is wider than the front and rear.
Using artificial intelligence, the Fine-Comfort Ride offers occupants an ‘agent’ that mimics a personal concierge capable of organising your day on the move. The windows double as video touch-screens, too.
Toyota will also use the Tokyo event next week to show off an even roomier people-mover, a city bus concept called the Sora.
The Japanese marque plans to rollout out 100 of the buses on the streets of Tokyo when the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The name is an acronym for sky, ocean, river and air, and not surprisingly, spruiks plenty of green technology including two fuel-cell stacks, two electric motors, a nickel-metal hydride battery and 10 high-pressure hydrogen tanks.
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