Minister of Road, Transport and Highways - Nitin Gadkari has been stressing on the adoption of alternative fuel vehicles for quite sometime now and hydrogen powered vehicles are at the top of his priority list. The minister today, arrived in parliament in a brand-new Toyota Mirai which is a fuel cell electric vehicle. The Toyota Mirai is yet to be commercially launched in India and Toyota had brought some FCEV models to our market for testing purposes.
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Gadkari had launched the Toyota Mirai FCEV pilot project in India earlier this month.
Gadkari had earlier launched the pilot project of India's first hydrogen-based advanced "Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV)" - the Toyota Mirai. He had also shared a video of how green hydrogen can power a car and had said that green hydrogen was an efficient, eco-friendly and sustainable energy pathway to make India energy self-reliant. In fact, Gadkari had confirmed in January itself that he would himself use a hydrogen-powered car. He had said that Toyota had given him a vehicle which runs on green Hydrogen and he would use it himself as a pilot project on alternative fuel.
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Gadkari had said that he would be using the FCEV himself.
As mentioned earlier, Gadkari has often favoured a green transition in fuel, saying rapid strides in green fuel technology will reduce the cost of electric vehicles (EVs), bringing them on a par with petrol-run vehicles in a short time. The Toyota Mirai is the brand's flagship FCEV and Toyota has launched the pilot project in collaboration with the International Centre for Automotive Technology - India's state-run automotive testing, certification and R&D service organisation based in Gurugram. On a full tank, the Mirai can go up to a claimed 600 kilometres.
