Tokyo, Japan, July 8, 2022―Isuzu Motors Limited (Isuzu), DENSO Corporation (DENSO), Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino), and Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT) introduced at this time that they’ve began planning and foundational analysis on hydrogen engines for heavy-duty industrial autos with the goal of additional using inner combustion engines as one possibility to obtain carbon neutrality.
On the highway to carbon neutrality, there are numerous powertrain choices to meet prospects’ calls for, together with HEVs, BEVs, and FCEVs, in accordance with the variations in power circumstances in several international locations and diversified buyer makes use of. Hydrogen engines are one such possibility. The hydrogen-powered Corolla*1 has participated within the Super Taikyu Series*2 since May 2021, and hydrogen engine know-how is evolving. In addition, efforts towards attaining a hydrogen society are additional accelerating, comparable to the rise within the variety of companions in producing, transporting, and utilizing hydrogen.
CO2 discount in transportation and logistics by heavy-duty industrial autos, an essential piece of infrastructure that helps individuals’s lives, is a social problem that wants to be addressed along with companions who share a typical imaginative and prescient towards attaining a carbon impartial society. Isuzu, DENSO, Toyota, Hino, and CJPT consider that hydrogen engines are one resolution to this problem, and will make the most of the applied sciences and know-how every firm has gathered to research the potential of hydrogen engines in heavy-duty industrial autos.
The 5 corporations will contribute to creating an even-better society by increasing the choices out there for attaining carbon neutrality.