For the future the brand Alpine will really be able to try different technological strategies to follow. The brand will be linked to the world of electric carsbut a hydrogen route will not be forgotten. Not just fuel cellsbut also uses in Toyota style, with thehydrogen as fuel for the combustion engine.
Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi gave Silverstone the first indications that the company is committed to keeping endothermic technology in its portfolio until the very end. “It is normal for us to look at parallel paths – and I say parallel on purpose; the idea is to find alternatives that are not necessarily incompatible with electrification, because electrification is – whether we like it or not – the future of the automotive sector for at least 60-70% of the car fleet. For the rest, it will depend on the type of use, the characteristics, the characteristics you want to have: I think that light commercial vehicles with a high payload could afford to use different solutions or high-performance cars“, He told Autocar.
Not only; according to Rossi, even synthetic fuels could provide further solutions. But hydrogen would be the number one choice for continuing to develop certain types of engines. “In our case, we believe that hydrogen as a fuel has a future. Green hydrogen has the merit of being very compatible with electrification. We want to go one step further and use hydrogen as fuel so that we can use a V6 – a nice hybrid V6“, has explained.
The staunchest supporter of the technology is Toyota, which extols the cost benefits of using existing combustion technology combined with hydrogen and has already proven it to be the Toyota GR’s 1.6-liter three-cylinder engine. Yaris, both the five-liter Lexus RC F V8, need only a slight modification to run on hydrogen. Though the road to development is still quite long.
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