Toyota, Subaru, Yamaha, Mazda and Kawasaki enter into a partnership
Toyota, Subaru, Yamaha, Mazda and Kawasaki believe that battery cars are not the complete picture. The Japanese brands are entering into a partnership to make combustion engines sustainable. They therefore focus on the development of combustion engines that run on hydrogen, synthetic fuels and even biodiesel. How do they do that? By racing it – to start with – vigorously.
Mazda is working on biodiesel. They make fat from microalgae and cooking oil. Subaru will race with Toyota on synthetic fuel and Toyota will race with Yamaha with hydrogen combustion engines. The brands want to test the sustainable fuels in long-distance races. Yamaha and Kawasaki are investigating the use of hydrogen for two-wheelers, but also for other vehicles such as boats and airplanes.
Honda and Suzuki could also join Yamaha and Kawasaki in the future. “To maintain a clear line between collaboration and competition, they plan to move forward after establishing a framework that will clearly define the areas of collaboration and joint research,” Toyota wrote about the collaboration.
Is it done with the electric car again?
The electric car is unstoppable, but there are a lot of questions where batteries are not the solution. Try running a container ship on batteries – then it can hardly accommodate more containers in terms of weight. Planes would also become too heavy. And how about long-distance transport? Or places where charging stations cannot reach, but passenger cars can?
Fuels such as biodiesel, synthetic petrol and hydrogen may be a solution for all these other applications. And quite honestly: wouldn’t it be a shame if the combustion engine were to disappear altogether?
