Automakers have begun to move towards engines that don’t work with fossil fuels and have no carbon emissions. Electric vehicles quickly entered our lives. Apart from electric vehicles, another environmentally friendly technology that entered our lives was hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Toyota plays a pioneering role in the development and production of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Introduced in 2014, Toyota Mirai operates as a hydrogen fuel cell. Now BMW is returning to the competition with hydrogen cell vehicles. The company developed i Hydrogen Next with the support of Toyota. Fuel cells of Hydrogen Next, powered by hydrogen, can produce 375 hp. This fuel cell of the vehicle provides 125kW of electrical energy. In addition, the vehicle has a “top battery” that can be used when it needs additional power. With this battery, a total of 275 kW electricity is provided in the system. The 700 bar pressure tank of BMW’s hydrogen cell vehicle has 6kg of compressed hydrogen capacity. With this tank capacity, we can say that if the BMW burns the same fuel efficiency as the Toyota Mirai, the vehicle can travel 750 km with a single tank. No need to be excited about Hdyrogen Next. In a statement made by BMW, it is said that BMWs working with hydrogen need a longer time to confront the drivers. At the same time, the infrastructure is not yet ready for the use of hydrogen vehicles. For this reason, BMW is planning to continue with internal combustion engine vehicles and electric vehicles for a while. BMW will still produce the hydrogen I Hydrogen Next, developed in limited numbers in 2022 for testing purposes. The company will start producing i Hydrogen Next for sale this time in 2025 if the market conditions are suitable and there is sufficient demand for the vehicle. So the production of i Hydrogen Next depends on many conditions. If the conditions are not suitable, we may not see BMW for a long time while producing hydrogen powered vehicles.
