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Working Toward the Mobility Society of the Future

Message from the President The Source of Our Value Creation: What Makes Us Toyota Value Creation Story: Working toward the Mobility Society of the Future Business Foundations for Value Creation Corporate Data > Making Ever-better Cars > Initiatives to Achieve Carbon Neutrality Software and Connected Initiatives > Commercial Sector Initiatives > Woven City Initiatives to Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Hydrogen Engines The Evolution of Efforts to Produce, Transport, and Use Hydrogen through a Year of Racing ROOKIE RAW 32 June 2022 marked a year since the racing debut of a hydrogen engine developed by Toyota. Hydrogen engines work like modified versions of conventional gasoline engines, powered by burning hydrogen directly as fuel. The fuel is 100% pure hydrogen, unmixed with gasoline. As no fossil fuels are burned, hydrogen-engine vehi- cles emit almost no CO2 when in operation-only that from the combustion of minute amounts of engine oil. The hydrogen engine is thus one option that offers great potential to contribute to carbon neutrality while making use of technologies for internal combustion engines built up over the decades and protecting engine-related jobs in the automotive industry. In late 2020, after taking a test drive in a hydro- gen engine prototype car, master driver Morizo (President Akio Toyoda) decided on the spot to enter a hydrogen engine car in Super Taikyu Series races. The development of race vehicles is dramatically faster and more agile than that of mass-production vehicles. We decided that racing would provide the ideal environment for honing our hydrogen engines being developed with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality. Looking at the overall route to the market release of a hydrogen engine car, we are currently a little less than halfway there. The finish line is still far ahead, and there are still many issues to be figured out, but we are steadily moving forward. Over the course of a year of racing with hydrogen engines, our hydrogen engine technologies and initiatives to use hydrogen have evolved. At the same time, the number of like-minded partners who have joined our efforts to produce, transport, and use hydrogen has expanded from eight at the starting line to 25 as of August 2022. With regard to hydrogen production, the range of available energy sources for producing hydro- gen has expanded to include solar power from Yamanashi Prefecture and Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture; geothermal energy from Obayashi Corporation; lignite from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Iwatani Corporation, and Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-Power); and sewage biogas from Fukuoka City. To transport hydrogen, Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation has improved its FC light-duty trucks, changing from a metal tank to a lightweight resin liner tank that can transport hydrogen at higher pressure, achieving an approximately four-fold increase in the amount of hydrogen transported annually.* In addition, as a first step in procuring hydrogen from overseas, hydrogen transported by air to Japan by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Iwatani Corporation, and J-Power on a trial basis was used as fuel in Toyota's hydrogen-powered vehicles. As for using hydrogen, we are working to improve cars and engines through agile develop- ment in the demanding environment of motor- sports. Over a year of racing, our hydrogen engines have evolved significantly, increasing power output by 20%*, torque by 30%*, and cruising range by 20%*, while hydrogen filling time has been reduced from approximately five Toyota Times Super Taikyu 2022 minutes to 90 seconds.* We have also raced with a GR86 modified to use another, non- hydrogen carbon-neutral fuel. The partners who joined us through racing in the Super Taikyu Series are now accelerating initiatives outside of racing to achieve carbon neutrality. Expanding Hydrogen Initiatives Globally Our efforts to develop hydrogen engine cars are extending beyond Japan. In August 2022, Morizo put a hydrogen engine car (a GR Yaris) through its paces in a demonstration run during the ninth round of the World Rally Championship (WRC) in Belgium. This enabled us to highlight the potential of hydrogen as an option for achieving carbon neutrality in Europe. We also plan to enter a hydrogen engine car in an endurance race in Thailand in December 2022. Through our efforts to use hydrogen that began with hydrogen engine vehicles in the Super Taikyu Series races in Japan, and gradual growth in understanding of our asser- tion that carbon is our enemy, not internal com- bustion engines, hydrogen has come to be seen as an option for the future. Going beyond national, regional, and industry borders, we will continue to push forward with our partners. *Figures as of June 30, 2022 TOYOTA GAZOO GR Racing Kup K D L VAZA ALPO AGAH KIZUNA eg DENSO BEHEOS BA business Kue ROOKIE RACIN K D anasonic Panasonic ENSO ENEOS docom Susimens CO2 STOP Photographs by Noriaki Mitsuhashi / N-RAK PHOTO AGENCY TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 23 INTEGRATED REPORT
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