Toyota Corolla Concept with a hydrogen engine, the same loud sound and zero emissions.. Toyota Corolla enters a race with hydrogen and gasoline in a circuit that holds 24 hours.
And the Japanese manufacturer has gone so far as to keep its car enthusiasts at bay, as Toyota has proven
that zero emissions doesn’t necessarily mean zero noise by building a hydrogen-powered Corolla race car that can look like a proper hot hatch.
The 34-second clip was posted to YouTube by enthusiast Toyota Times, and was filmed at a race track in Japan.
It shows the rear of the test race car announced in April 2021, and it sports an odd-looking exhaust tip with a grille insert.
With the Corolla accelerating, nothing in the exhaust notes indicates it’s a zero-emissions car.
It still tunes well, but road testers say it really drives just like the petrol model.
The Toyota test driver said: “It’s not as different [from a petrol car] as I expected.
It looks like a normal engine. If I wasn’t told otherwise, I would probably think it was a normal engine.”
Hiroaki Ishiura after a few laps.
Not all hydrogen-powered cars look good.
Most of them are almost completely silent, including Toyota’s own Mirai.
A handful of hydrogen models currently in production have a fuel cell that produces electricity and uses it to drive an electric motor in motion.
On the other hand, the Corolla being tested is equipped with a three-cylinder turbocharged engine that burns hydrogen instead of gasoline.
It has cylinders, pistons and valves.
Toyota will continue to make improvements and modifications to the Corolla test drive, and the car will enter the third round of Japan’s Super Taikyu 24 hour series of racing at Fuji Speedway. The event is scheduled to take place from May 21-23. But it’s too soon to know when – this technology will reach mass production, but Toyota has made it clear that it’s not considering doing everything in electric vehicles is the right solution.
“We want Toyota to try to prove that [internal combustion] engines can be useful in achieving carbon neutrality, and we want to turn it into a platform that mechanics and private garages, which support motorsports, can use in the future,” Akio Toyoda, the company’s president, told Toyota Times. He added that in Japan and abroad, there is a tremendous amount of knowledge about engine tuning, and he hopes it will be useful in racing for a long time.
Toyota revealed that the Corolla will be racing in the Super Taikyu series and is powered by a modified version of the inline-turbocharged three-cylinder engine that will undoubtedly be familiar to fans and enthusiasts of GR Yaris. The only difference is that in this application, the new engine detonates pressurized hydrogen rather than pumping out gas.
Toyota: We hope to create a hydrogen-based society.
Toyota said in a press release earlier this month that the engine is more responsive. According to the driver of this Corolla, it is not a big change. This is confirmed by the driver who appeared in the first video, confirming that it is a completely normal engine.
In fact, the process of fuel entering the cylinder, compressing it, and exploding it is very similar to a normal engine, but the explosion does not generate carbon dioxide. Little oil is consumed in the process and nitrogen oxides are emitted, but it’s still a huge improvement over petroleum-based fuels.
Corolla races gasoline and hydrogen in 24 hours
The Toyota Corolla test car will be raced by the ORC ROOKIE Racing team, and will make its first event next month at the NAPAC Fuji Super TEC 24 Hours Race on May 21-23.
Toyota says this is one of the technologies it is looking at in order to achieve carbon neutrality. Through motorsports, the company said it hopes to create a hydrogen-based society.
Toyota experts say the death of the internal combustion engine has been greatly exaggerated. And yes, we’re heading into an electric era, but a good internal combustion engine isn’t going to give up without a fight just yet. Volkswagen has been toying with the idea of synthetic fuels long before the word “dieseljet” came into existence and it’s not the only big company trying to keep its “loud” powertrain alive.
Take, for example, Toyota. The Mirai is not exactly the most exciting car in the world, but it is one of the cleanest cars with water coming out only from the exhaust tip. This JDM Corolla Sport hatchback also fuels hydrogen as a mid-size sedan, but it still has an internal combustion engine, and the fuel used is 100 percent pure hydrogen without a single drop of gasoline.
And about the engine, Toyota added: Its hydrogen engine emits nearly zero carbon dioxide emissions when in use, “except for the combustion of minute amounts of engine oil while driving.” Toyota continued, saying that these engines “burn hydrogen while absorbing oxygen in the air, as is the case with gasoline engines, and a certain amount of nitrogen oxides is created in the process.” And the
The death of the internal combustion engine has been greatly exaggerated. Yes, we’re heading into an electric age, but good ICE isn’t giving up without a fight just yet. Volkswagen Group has been toying with the idea of synthetic fuels long before the word “dieseljet” came on and it’s not the only big company trying to keep its “loud” powertrain alive.
Take, for example, Toyota. The Mirai isn’t exactly the most exciting car in the world, but it’s one of the cleanest with only water coming out of the exhaust tip. This JDM-spec Corolla Sport hatchback also fuels hydrogen as a mid-size sedan, but it still has a combustion engine. The fuel used is one hundred percent pure hydrogen without a single drop of gasoline.
Its hydrogen engine emits nearly zero CO2 emissions when in use, “except for the combustion of minute amounts of engine oil while driving”. Toyota continues to say that these engines “burn hydrogen while absorbing oxygen in the air, and as with gasoline engines, a certain amount of nitrogen oxides is created in the process.”
Keeping the internal combustion engine alive means that the Corolla’s hatch here can still deliver a good engine soundtrack while being virtually neutral on carbon emissions. Equipped with a turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine, this still-working prototype will draw its juice from renewable energy produced at the hydrogen energy research field in Fukushima, Japan.
Although it’s not a six- or eight-cylinder inline song, the sound produced by the engine isn’t half bad considering it’s only three tunes. It is also very similar to a conventional petrol engine, as explained by race driver Hiroaki Ishiura: “It’s not as different from a regular petrol vehicle) as I expected. It looks like a normal engine. (If I hadn’t been told, I would probably think this was a normal motor.
We’ll be seeing more of the Corolla Sport next month as I, like all of you, can’t wait to see it tested during the 24-hour endurance race as part of the Super Taikyo Series. The compact hatchback is interesting not only because of its unique engine, but also because of the all-wheel drive system adapted to the GR Yaris. Even more surprising are the rumors about the GR Corolla with Supermini all-wheel drive and its turbocharged three-cylinder engine.
Toyota today showcased its experimental hydrogen-powered combustion engine technology in the multiple award-winning GR Yaris. The hydrogen fuel, fuel tanks and refuelling process of the experimental vehicle are the same as found in the Mirai, Toyota’s commercially available flagship fuel cell electric vehicle
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