Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid

The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid is Mazda 5 with hybrid drive, which consists of a hydrogen-powered rotary engine, an electric motor and a nickel -metal hydride battery.

It was first sold in 2005, at the Tokyo Motor Show 2007 was shown an improved version, in which now the Wankel engine is installed transversely, and a lithium - ion battery used.

The hydrogen tank with 110 liters at 350 bar stores up to 2.4 kg of hydrogen and is fitted in addition to the 60 -liter fuel tank. If the hydrogen consumed, the small Wankel engine switches to petrol mode. The range of hydrogen should be around 200 kilometers according to the manufacturer.

The hybrid drive with the bivalent Renesis rotary engine has the following data

From 2008 to copies of the 2007 version will be leased to selected customers. The schedule has not been met since the first copy was delivered to the company Iwatani only in May 2009.