BMW Collaborates With Toyota For Production Of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles By 2025

JAKARTA - In collaboration with Toyota Motor, BMW will start mass-producing and selling Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2025.

The innovation was driven because the German automaker wanted to create greener cars amid increasingly stringent environmental regulations in Europe.

Launching from Nikkei Asia, BMW said that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are claimed to be more relevant for SUV models.

"We see that hydrogen fuel cell technology is particularly relevant for larger SUVs," BMW's head of sales Pieter Nota told Nikkei Asia.

BMW has actually launched the iX5 Hydrogen fuel cell concept car at the German International Motor Show in September 2021. However, the company at that time had previously announced.

According to the company, the FCV can be recharged in three to four minutes much faster than battery electric vehicles.

"We have various projects that we are working on with Toyota," said Nota, hinting at further collaboration with the Japanese automaker.

On the other hand, BMW really wants to speed up the transition from production to electric vehicles. Currently, the company targets 50 percent of new sales across the group including the Mini and Rolls-Royce brands to be electric by 2030.

However, BMW has also confirmed that its factories will still produce gasoline-powered vehicles, including hybrids, for about half of the group's sales by 2030.

"We believe in the importance of various electric vehicle battery technologies, as well as hydrogen and efficient combustion engines, because we don't want to put all our investments in one area," he further said.