Toyota has won £11.3 million of support to develop a pick-up truck powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
The backing will support up to 250 jobs at the Derbyshire-based car giant and could one day pave the way for Toyota’s Deeside factory, in north Wales, switching from building internal combustion engines to hydrogen fuel cell production.
Hydrogen fuel cells which can power anything from trucks and cars to radio transmitters and phones. Power is generated through chemical reaction and the only by-product is water.