{"id":3438,"date":"2021-06-30T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:21:28","slug":"bmw-starts-testing-hydrogen-fuelled-x5s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/bmw-starts-testing-hydrogen-fuelled-x5s\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW starts testing hydrogen-fuelled X5s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MarkUpWrapper-t20i90-0 gDRUr\" data-testid=\"HtmlContent\">\n<p>BMW has begun testing prototypes of the \u2018i Hydrogen NEXT\u2019. This will effectively be a hydrogen-fuelled X5. The X5s will be tested in Europe under \u201creal-life conditions\u201d as BMW gears up to eventually put a FCEV on sale, perhaps as early as 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The i Hydrogen NEXT uses fuel cells developed together with\u00a0Toyota\u00a0and can carry six kilos of hydrogen in twin CFRP tanks. The fuel cell and \u201cperformance buffer battery\u201d produce a combined 369bhp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MarkUpWrapper-t20i90-0 gDRUr\" data-testid=\"HtmlContent\">\n<p>Frank Weber, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Development, says: \u201cHydrogen fuel cell technology can be an attractive option for sustainable drive trains \u2013 especially in larger vehicle classes. That is why road testing of near-standard vehicles with a hydrogen fuel cell drive train is an important milestone in our research and development efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-news\/electric\/bmw-has-started-testing-hydrogen-fuelled-x5s\">https:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-news\/electric\/bmw-has-started-testing-hydrogen-fuelled-x5s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW has begun testing prototypes of the \u2018i Hydrogen NEXT\u2019. This will effectively be a hydrogen-fuelled X5. The X5s will be tested in Europe under \u201creal-life conditions\u201d as BMW gears up to eventually put a FCEV on sale, perhaps as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/bmw-starts-testing-hydrogen-fuelled-x5s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}