Hydrogen engine

Toyota is working very hard to keep the internal combustion engine alive.

Toyota modified the three-cylinder turbo from the GR Yaris to run on hydrogen for use in the Super Taikyu endurance series.

A new Korean hydrogen engine has just marked a historic milestone: farewell to conventional injection, with improved power output.

The Wankel rotary has a lot of drawbacks as a gasoline engine, but they become benefits when you switch to hydrogen fuel, as Mazda did with a limited-production RX-8.

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Developed with Toyota, this is BMW’s compact hydrogen technology today.

But Toyota has contracted Yamaha yet again, this time to create a hydrogen-powered V8 engine. Based on the 5.0-liter engine found in the RC F, modifications have been made to the cylinder heads, intake manifold, injectors, and several other components. Running on hydrogen, it produces 450-horsepower at 6,800 rpm and 398 lb-ft of torque at 3,600 rpm.

Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota are rolling out new hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicles for 2014. So are we finally at the dawn of the hydrogen age? Not so fast.

Engineers from UNSW Sydney have successfully converted a diesel engine to run as a hydrogen-diesel hybrid engine—reducing CO2 emissions by more than 85% in the process.