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01-23-2013, 03:58 PM
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For over a year now, we've been hearing about a potential partnership (http://green.autoblog.com/2011/11/28/toyota-bmw-to-build-green-cars-together/) between Toyota (http://www.autoblog.com/toyota/) and BMW (http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/) on everything from sports cars (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/06/29/bmw-and-toyota-to-partner-on-sports-car-and-ev-tech/) to lithium-ion batteries (http://green.autoblog.com/2012/03/27/bmw-toyota-start-next-gen-li-ion-battery-research-partnership/), but one of the first cooperative projects between these two automakers could bring Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell technology to a BMW vehicle. Reuters is reporting that an announcement is likely to be made as soon as later this week regarding a BMW fuel cell vehicle that could be in production by 2020 with a prototype running around by 2015.
The last we heard of Toyota's fuel cell technology, it was in the FCV-R Concept (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/11/30/toyota-fcv-r-concept-tokyo-2011/) that we saw at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/tokyo%20motor%20show), but there is no word how far along in development this system is. If it does come to fruition, such a vehicle for BMW would build on the automaker's commitment to hydrogen that started with the Hydrogen 7 (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/bmw+hydrogen+7/), which unlike a fuel cell vehicle, simply ran on hydrogen fuel rather than converting it to electricity for use in motors. We're definitely interested where this Toyota/BMW tie up could be headed.Toyota close to licensing deal with BMW for fuel cell technology (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/23/toyota-close-to-licensing-deal-with-bmw-for-fuel-cell-technology/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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For over a year now, we've been hearing about a potential partnership (http://green.autoblog.com/2011/11/28/toyota-bmw-to-build-green-cars-together/) between Toyota (http://www.autoblog.com/toyota/) and BMW (http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/) on everything from sports cars (http://www.autoblog.com/2012/06/29/bmw-and-toyota-to-partner-on-sports-car-and-ev-tech/) to lithium-ion batteries (http://green.autoblog.com/2012/03/27/bmw-toyota-start-next-gen-li-ion-battery-research-partnership/), but one of the first cooperative projects between these two automakers could bring Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell technology to a BMW vehicle. Reuters is reporting that an announcement is likely to be made as soon as later this week regarding a BMW fuel cell vehicle that could be in production by 2020 with a prototype running around by 2015.
The last we heard of Toyota's fuel cell technology, it was in the FCV-R Concept (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/11/30/toyota-fcv-r-concept-tokyo-2011/) that we saw at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/tokyo%20motor%20show), but there is no word how far along in development this system is. If it does come to fruition, such a vehicle for BMW would build on the automaker's commitment to hydrogen that started with the Hydrogen 7 (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/bmw+hydrogen+7/), which unlike a fuel cell vehicle, simply ran on hydrogen fuel rather than converting it to electricity for use in motors. We're definitely interested where this Toyota/BMW tie up could be headed.Toyota close to licensing deal with BMW for fuel cell technology (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/23/toyota-close-to-licensing-deal-with-bmw-for-fuel-cell-technology/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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