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MTI chooses Toyota's hydrogen-powered truck
24 March 2025
AT THE MIRA Technology Institute’s (MTI) training facility in the Midlands, engineers and technicians are taught the essential specialist skills they need to keep pace with the innovations that are driving developments across the global automotive industry.

The purpose-designed facility is the result of a unique collaboration led by North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire college (NWSLC), and its partners, HORIBA MIRA, Coventry University, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University. It’s regarded as a centre of excellence and delivers accredited programmes in emerging areas such as autonomous vehicles and electrification for professionals of all levels - from apprentices to chartered engineers.
Hands-on skills training is delivered in fully equipped workshop spaces that create a ‘live’ industry environment. The workshops are configured to meet the demands of diverse training sessions, which often means shifting heavy and cumbersome automotive parts as well as complete cars into positions where they can be easily and safely accessed and studied by the students.
"Toyota’s experience with hydrogen-powered forklifts goes back nearly two decades. Toyota Hydrogen fuel cell- forklifts have been in operation at sites across the Nordic region and Europe as well as Australia for several years. And, of course, in the automotive sector the Toyota Mirai is at the forefront of a new age of hydrogen fuel cell cars that deliver long distance zero-emissions driving," said Phil Tunney, Toyota Material Handling’s hydrogen product manager.
"With operators of some very large materials handling equipment fleets, keen to embrace the productivity and sustainability benefits hydrogen technology can deliver, we are anticipating a big up-take of hydrogen-powered trucks in the UK logistics industry. 95% of trucks in the Toyota range can already be supplied from our factory with a fuel cell installed."
The MIRA Technology Park is in the process of installing the infrastructure needed to produce and store hydrogen on site. A hydrogen electrolyser system will convert energy from the sun's rays into hydrogen to power the truck’s fuel cells, which means that 100 per cent of the hydrogen needed to run the truck will come from renewable sources.
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