{"id":76579,"date":"2024-09-06T00:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76579"},"modified":"2024-09-06T00:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T04:03:45","slug":"1144374_hydrogen-powered-bmw-to-reach-showrooms-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76579","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen-powered BMW to reach showrooms in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"

BMW will add a hydrogen-powered vehicle to its lineup in 2028, the automaker announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It will be a hydrogen-electric vehicle using a next-generation powertrain developed jointly with Toyota<\/strong>, which plans to use the powertrain in its own vehicles.<\/p>\n

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A hydrogen-electric vehicle is similar to a battery-electric vehicle, but instead of the drive system drawing energy from a charged battery it relies on a hydrogen fuel cell stack<\/strong>. Such vehicles also often have a battery that steps in to deliver extra energy during high-load situations.<\/p>\n

BMW has been building hydrogen-electric X5 SUVs<\/a> since late 2022, albeit in very low volumes. The vehicles have been limited to test and demonstration purposes and never offered to the public. The hydrogen-electric vehicle due in 2028 will be a regular production model. It will be a variant of an existing model line, BMW has confirmed.<\/p>\n

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BMW iX5 Hydrogen production – Dec. 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BMW, much like Toyota, wants to offer customers a choice of powertrains, be it gas powertrains, plug-in hybrids, battery-electric vehicles, or hydrogen-electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

A lack of charging infrastructure is still one of the biggest sticking point for would-be EV buyers, but hydrogen infrastructure is almost nonexistent<\/strong>. To address the issue, BMW and Toyota view the development of hydrogen-electric passenger vehicles as a means to create demand.<\/p>\n

Both companies are also working with energy firms specializing in production and distribution of low-carbon hydrogen<\/strong>. Toyota last fall demonstrated a pilot plant able to turn biogas into hydrogen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Toyota and several other companies including Bosch, Ferrari, and Porsche<\/strong> are also looking at internal-combustion engines designed to run on hydrogen, albeit likely for use in motorsports<\/a> rather than production vehicles. When burning hydrogen, engines emit zero carbon emissions. However, they also emit harmful nitrogen oxides that need to be treated using urea-based selective catalytic reduction like in modern diesel engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BMW will add a hydrogen-powered vehicle to its lineup in 2028, the automaker announced on Thursday. It will be a hydrogen-electric vehicle using a next-generation powertrain developed jointly with Toyota, which plans to use the powertrain in its own vehicles. A hydrogen-electric vehicle is similar to a battery-electric vehicle, but instead of the drive system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}