Toyota will race a hydrogen-engined prototype at the 2026 Le Mans 24 Hours! Autocar has all the details 🏁
In a statement about its race programme, Toyota said it had been “honing its technologies in the harsh environment of motorsports and, with like-minded partners in and outside the automotive industry, accelerating its efforts for producing, transporting, and using hydrogen toward the realisation of a carbon-neutral society. Toyota intends to further advance such efforts for making ever-better motorsports-bred cars using a hydrogen-engine Corolla.
On the potential of hydrogen-powered engines being developed for road applications, Toyota said: “We are about 50% through the development path that is required to get to road car production. We don’t know if we’ll get there, but we are not giving up yet. “Considering the multitude of customer requirements and the environment across all markets where Toyota sells cars, we prefer to keep a multi-tech approach open.”, GR Corolla and Corolla Cross.
The Toyota GR H2 Racing Concept will be developed into a full-blown race car in a collaboration between Toyota’s research facility in Higashi Fuji and Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe in Cologne, which runs the team's current race cars. It has not yet been decided if the hydrogen racers will compete at Le Mans in 2026, or if any of the team’s current roster of drivers will transfer to the programme. To date, the Corolla has been raced by star names including outgoing Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda under his Morizo nickname and former World Rally Championship driver Jari-Matti Latvala.
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