Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrids delivered to Hiroshima

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By Matt Brogan | September 17th, 2009

Mazda today delivered one Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid each to the City of Hiroshima and Hiroshima Prefecture government authorities in western Japan.

The Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid is Mazda’s latest hydrogen rotary engine (RE) vehicle that uses hydrogen as a fuel and features a unique hybrid system.

Including the first lease of a Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid to the Iwatani Corporation in May 2009, Mazda has now delivered three hydrogen hybrid vehicles to fleet customers to date.

The City of Hiroshima and Hiroshima Prefecture each had a rotary engine RX-8 Hydrogen RE vehicle delivered in April 2006, making this the second hydrogen-fueled model that has been handed over to the local government authorities.

The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid can run on both hydrogen and petrol thanks to a dual-fuel system that was developed for the Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE.

The addition of a hybrid system to the Premacy Hydrogen RE significantly enhances the vehicle’s performance and contributes to its increased hydrogen fuel range of 200 kilometres, which is double that of the RX-8 Hydrogen RE.

“As a company proudly rooted in Hiroshima, Mazda is delighted to deliver our hydrogen rotary engine vehicles to the City of Hiroshima and Hiroshima Prefecture, who are already using the RX-8 Hydrogen RE,” said Akihiro Kashiwagi, Mazda’s program manager in charge of hydrogen RE vehicle development.

“We are working hard to keep improving the performance of Mazda’s hydrogen-fueled rotary engine vehicles and do our part to help achieve a hydrogen energy-based society in the future.”

Based on its Sustainable Zoom-Zoom plan, Mazda is committed to pursuing harmony between driving pleasure and environmental and safety features. Mazda constantly strives to offer vehicles that “look inviting to drive, are fun to drive, and make you want to drive them again.”

Main specifications of the Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid:

Overall Length: 4565mm
Overall Width: 1745mm
Overall Height: 1620mm
Engine: Mazda hydrogen rotary engine (with a dual-fuel system)
Motor: AC synchronous motor
Maximum Output: 110kW
Generator: AC synchronous generator
Battery: Lithium-ion (Li-ion)
Seating Capacity: Five
Fuel: hydrogen and unleaded petrol
Fuel Tank: 35MPa high-pressure tank for hydrogen gas & regular petrol tank

Source: Mazda

Lexustime

Car companies need to sit down and work out where they are heading for fuel, it might be ok to develop: hybrid, electric, ethanol, diesel, LPG, petrol, hydrogen cars. But at one point we have to realise what infrastructure is needed to support these cars, we are talking billions just to set up hydrogen fueling stations.

lazybones

very true, but politics plays a large roll here. And the oil companies don’t like any alternative they don’t produce. Remember car companies have been in partnership with the oil companies for years, so now the car companies are probably being careful not to upset them.

No Hydrogen cars at Frankfurt 2009 despite Toyota claiming they will have a production car in 2015….hmmmmmm

Shak

I think the smart ones are using hybrids and all the other alternatives to make it look like their doing something, while the engineers sit back and develop means of getting hydrogen to the masses. It is the only truly renewable fuel.

JEKYL & HYDE

shak,

lets not forget electric,if its made by wind or solar,and when someone invents an affordable way of powering my home and car for nothing,i’m in…

Andrew M

Jeckyl,
you seriously arent implying that one day you will get something like power for your house or car for nothing are you?????

Nothing is ever free and in the case of solar panels, if one day they do come up with an affordable way of manufacturing them, dont for one minute think the government will let us harness the solar energy for nothing

Technofreak

lol…anti-spam = Tesla

Anyway, I do agree that unfortunately we will not see an alternative fuel/motive power source that is ‘free’ without some massive shift which sees us get stitched up some other way.

Hydrogen may seem like a good idea but the change across to using this fuel is massive!! Not going to happen anytime soon.
http://caradvice.com.au Bonsa

We live in Western Australia our electricty and heating for our home is entirely from the sun. A roof mounted 2kw solar pv system does the job nicely. The system pays for itself after 6 or 7 years and lasts 20-25 years. Jekyl is right, think about the possibilities of never, ever having to show up at a filling station again.