Toyota has announced that from 2026 onward it will race a hydrogen-fueled, ICE-powered prototype at Le Mans in the new class for H2 vehicles.
Details of the project remain sparse, though the company has been actively developing its H2 ICE technology in the Japanese Super Taikyu series with a Corolla, and is currently developing the liquid, rather than gaseous, injection system for the car.
In a statement the company said it “has been honing its technologies in the harsh environment of motorsports and, with like-minded partners in and outside the automotive industry, accelerating its efforts for producing, transporting, and using hydrogen toward the realization of a carbon-neutral society. Toyota intends to further advance such efforts for making ever-better motorsports-bred cars and realizing a carbon-neutral society and it looks forward to taking on the challenge of a new generation of Le Mans 24 races”.
