Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell vehicle will be in showrooms sooner than planned, the Japan Times
reporting that production will commence in mid-December with the sedan
following "by the end of this year." No reason was given for the new
timeline; Toyota has been saying all along that we'd see it in 2015.
The company is said to be "considering" production volume of "dozens
of... vehicles per month" at a "likely" price of eight million yen,
which is $78,030 US. That is well in line with the numbers thrown around
last year, when the target was somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000. Then late last year, during our first drive of the FCHV mule, we wrote that "the official quote... [is] that a price of 'less than 10 million yen is ideal.'"
That alleged $78K is a sizable sum to be one of the early adopters on
the hydrogen fuel cell wagon train, but with things moving around so
much – and with Toyota publicly citing hydrogen fuel cells as the future – there's plenty of reason to be cautious about that number.
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