The collaboration of Toyota, Honda and Suzuki is not due, as it might seem, to the creation or research of a electric car -let us remember that Toyota and Suzuki will work together on the creation of the first electric off-road vehicle-, but it is due to a hydrogen car.
More specifically to a hydrogen buggy and the HySE projectin which the aforementioned three brands collaborate along with other Japanese brands such as Yamaha or Kawasaki.
A project to advance the use of hydrogen as fuel
The project HySEwhose acronym corresponds to the Hydrogen Small Mobility & Engine Technology Association, It is a Japanese associationna that seeks, to alleviate Japan’s dependence on fossil fuels, innovations in the use of hydrogen as fuel.
And, in order to test the use of hydrogen in real life, HySEwithin which, we repeat, there are automobile brands such as Toyota, Suzuki and Honda, He participated in 2024 and for the first time in the Dakar rally.
He did it with a buggy called HySE-X1 and that was framed in the challenge Mission 1000 of the Dakar, which calls on manufacturers of electric, hydrogen and hybrid cars to travel 1,000 km within the stages of the test to test their technologies, with a view to their technological development for their future use in the real world .
Japanese brands and HySE return to the fray in 2025
The first year of this challenge has been overcome and in which the HySE-X1 buggy managed to finish the race and in fourth place in its category, the brands Toyota, Suzuki, Honda and the HySE project They will participate again in the 2025 edition of the Dakar; which this year will take place from January 3 to 17 in Saudi Arabia.
They will do it with a new hydrogen buggynow called HySE-X2 and that, compared to the 2024 model, presents improvements in the engine and chassisin addition to orn larger capacity hydrogen tank. All this with the objectives of achieving more power at high revolutions and improving fuel consumption at medium speeds.
The buggy hydrogen HySE-X2 It is 4 meters long by 2 meters wide and 1.9 meters high, weighs approximately 1,250 kg and what equips a 998 cubic centimeter four-cylinder hydrogen enginesupercharged and water cooled.
In 2025, it will be piloted by Japanese driver Yoshio Ikemachi, with extensive experience in the Dakar – he was 10th overall in the motorcycle category in 2000 and 22nd – first in the T1 category – in the four-wheeled vehicle classification. His co-pilot will be the Portuguese Paulo Marqués, who has also participated in several editions of the Dakar, both on motorcycles and in cars.
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