Diesel-Powered Toyota Models In Europe Will Be Able To Run On HVO100 Fossil-Free Fuel Starting From 2023 | Carscoops carscoops
– will be joining the Stellantis-based Proace family of LCVs which is already compatible with the HVO100 fuel.
For those not familiar with the matter, the HVO100 name stands for “hydrated vegetable oil”, which means it can be produced by either vegetable oils , or waste cooking oil. Still, it meets the EN 15940 European quality standard for paraffinic diesel, while it has a higher cetane number and a lower sulphur/aromatics content than regular diesel.
If you are wondering where does someone find this fossil-free diesel fuel, Europe already has around 1,000 fuel pumps supplying HVO100 in gas stations across Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Toyota believes that as more vehicles will be compatible with the HVO100, production will increase from the current 4 million tonnes per year to 15.5 million tonnes per year by 2030.
Besides its electrification strategy, Toyota and other Japanese automakers have been quite active in testing