HysetCo: Aiming for 10,000 hydrogen taxis in Paris: 2024 Olympics
HysetCo:
HysetCo is a French joint venture funded by Toyota and French industrial gas company Air Liquide.
Support taxi drivers in Paris to switch to FCVs.
By 2024, when the Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, we would like to introduce 10,000 units.
Olympics held: Summer 2024
On January 19, HysetCo raised 80 million euros (10 billion yen) to realize the plan.
Diesel vehicles will already be banned in Paris in the summer of 2024.
Gasoline cars will also be banned in 2030.
According to the announcement:
Highset Coe used the funds raised to “acquire the Paris taxi operator Slota Group.”
Slota Taxi:
All or most of the 600 diesel engine vehicles will be replaced with Toyota’s FCV “Mirai” by the end of the year.
Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2021-01-19/QN6NF8DWLU6T01
Toyota-Backed HysetCo Targets 10,000 Hydrogen Paris Taxis by 2024
HysetCo. raises 80 million euros to hasten shift among taxis
Paris has announced plans to get polluting cars off the road
A French company
plans to persuade 10,000 Paris taxi drivers to switch to hydrogen-powered cars by the time the Olympic Games come to town in three years.
HysetCo., a venture part-owned by Toyota Motor Corp. and Air Liquide SA,
has raised 80 million euros ($97 million) to help hasten the shift, it said Tuesday.
When Paris hosts the world’s top sporting showcase in summer 2024,
the city will already be rid of diesel cars, ahead of a ban on gasoline cars from 2030.
HysetCo., whose other owners include the Societe du Taxi Electrique Parisien,
has used the money raised — mostly through convertible debt — to buy Paris taxi operator Slota Group, it said in a statement.
It will replace most or all of Slota’s 600 diesel taxis by the end of the year with Mirai hydrogen-powered cars made by Toyota, according to Societe’s chairman, Mathieu Gardies.
Bloomberg