Toyota showed off a special version of its new Mirai saloon this week to celebrate Back to the Future day. The Japanese carmaker’s take on the time-travelling DeLorean from the popular movie series has the trademark gull-wing doors and the same, bare-metal bodywork seen in the Hollywood film. But Toyota’s car is not fuelled by banana skins. This one runs on hydrogen. Mirai — meaning “future” in Japanese — is Toyota’s fuel-cell vehicle, a hybrid…
Toyota bets the future car will be fuelled by hydrogen
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