Auto Show 2017: Toyota Design

Montreal International Auto Show 2017
Toyota Concepts - Design

January 20-29, 2017

As always, the annual Montreal International Auto show presents many surprises to the visitors. This year, it is the Toyota's avant-garde design of their fuel cell car concept prototype that stands out. Toyota's FCV Plus, a Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV), is hydrogen-powered, but also designed to be itself a power source. It represents the most futuristic concept with multi-purpose global hydrogen-power-grid implications presented in a design of a single car.

Toyota FCV Plus is purported to be more than just a car but also a mobile power source, to be used as a "stable source of electric power" either for home, to feed energy back into the grid, or to charge other cars. The car is designed to be a clean energy source, to operate as part of an "electric power-generating infrastructure," helping to protect the environment and providing energy security.

Actually, the FCV Plus concept is not only about an efficient car. It rather represents Toyota's vision of a sustainable hydrogen society in which hydrogen energy is widely used, and a clean production of hydrogen from a wide array of primary sources will make local, self-sufficient power generation a global reality.

FCV Plus has four in-wheel motors, a fuel cell behind front wheels, and a hydrogen tank behind the rear seats. It will be possible to remove the fuel cell and use it independently of the car as a portable generator. Other electric vehicles could be charged using wireless charging panels on the rear wheels and under the front floor. The car's energy status at any given time could be displayed on the windscreen and on the rear window.

Toyota's concept electrical cars also merit attention. They are COMS, the Supper-Compact Electric Vehicles.

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Also read my other article about the Montreal International Auto Show 2017 here.

Location of the Montreal International Auto Show:

Palais des congrès de Montréal

For more information visit the Montreal International Auto Show website.