Toyota’s Mirai is the world’s first production hydrogen fuelled car (Picture Toyota)

A car where the only thing which comes out of the exhaust is a plume of water vapour is to come to Britain this autumn.

The Toyota Mirai is powered by hydrogen gas, and will be the world’s first hydrogen-powered production car, expected to cost around £56,000.

The first hydrogen fuel pump will open in Sheffield next month, just off the M1.

The car will have a range of 300 miles and will fill up with gas in five minutes.


It’s powered by a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel stack, rather than burning the hydrogen.

The only by-product is water.

‘The challenge now is to make the hydrogen car become normal,’said Toyota’s Seiji Sano.

‘Just as we did with the hybrid through the Prius. The Mirai actually has the same battery and motor as a hybrid vehicle, but it’s the fuel cell that is revolutionary.’

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