{"id":4785,"date":"2021-04-22T20:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:29:17","slug":"toyota-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/22\/toyota-hydrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Motorsport goes Hydrogen with a growl"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"topic\">On April 22, as Toyota Times\u00a0recently reported, Akio and GAZOO Racing Company President Koji Sato announced that Toyota is working on a hydrogen-powered engine and intends to test the engine installed on the Corolla Sport (Corolla Hatchback) in a 24-hour endurance race from May 21 to 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\"><strong>As explained at the press briefing, it was late 2020 when Akio directed that the hydrogen engine be used in a race.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">That was only four months ago. President Sato also mentioned that the engineers \u201care undergoing endurance testing of the engine even at this moment\u201d since they have only one month left until the 24-hour race.To learn how ready the hydrogen engine is, Toyota Times was given a special opportunity to visit the circuit where the Corolla Sport powered by the hydrogen engine was being put through its paces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Again, this engine is not powered by gasoline but hydrogen, and it is different from an electric motor drive, as it has the unique vibrating sound of an engine.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"topic\"><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"topic\">Take a look at this video to hear for yourself.<\/section>\n<section class=\"topic\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unveiling the Sound of a Hydrogen-Powered Engine\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2dgzKW8EKMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"movieEmbeded\">\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u6c34\u7d20\u30a8\u30f3\u30b8\u30f3\u642d\u8f09\u306e\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf \u30ab\u30ed\u30fc\u30e9\u30fb\u30b9\u30dd\u30fc\u30c4\u304cS\u8010\u516c\u5f0f\u30c6\u30b9\u30c8\u306b\u767b\u5834\uff01 hydrogen combustion engine technology\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nhzAcdSpxYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\"><strong>As heard in the video, the sound of the hydrogen engine is pretty much like that of a gasoline engine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Racing driver Hiroaki Ishiura, who drove the test vehicle, also shared his impression as follows:\u201cIt\u2019s not as different (from normal gasoline-powered vehicles) as I had expected. It feels like a normal engine. (If I\u2019m not told anything) I\u2019d probably think that this is one normal engine.\u201dNothing could have been more reassuring as \u201cnormal\u201d in this case, as achieving a regular engine sound without emitting CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0is anything but normal. It reminded us of the excitement felt when car-lovers hear and feel that familiar \u201cvroom\u201d.<\/p>\n<section class=\"topic\"><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"topic\">Stay tuned for further updates on the hydrogen-powered engine, about which Toyota Times intends to discover more.<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, as Toyota Times\u00a0recently reported, Akio and GAZOO Racing Company President Koji Sato announced that Toyota is working on a hydrogen-powered engine and intends to test the engine installed on the Corolla Sport (Corolla Hatchback) in a 24-hour endurance race from May 21 to 23. As explained at the press briefing, it was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,45],"tags":[117,70,122,121],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technical","category-transport","tag-h2","tag-hydrogen","tag-motorsport","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honeworld.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}