Contributing Journalist
Contributing Journalist
Andrew Chesterton road tests and reviews the hydrogen fuel cell Toyota Mirai with specs, fuel consumption and verdict at its Australian preview.
To people of a certain vintage, Toyota's hydrogen fuel-cell Mirai will make about as much sense as lead-lined baseball caps or asbestos chewing gum. And not because the technology at work is too hard to understand - though it is insanely complex - but because hydrogen has spent an awfully long time killing people.
The plentiful but hugely flammable element has been linked to some of the planet's most catastrophic disasters - from Hiroshima to the Hindenburg - and promoting a product that literally put the "H" in "H-Bomb" will surely rank as one of the world's great marketing challenges.
Read the full Toyota Mirai 2016 review.