pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/la-2007-toyota-highlander-fuel-cell/489268/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border=" " src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/06/toyota-highlander-comic-580.png" alt="" //abr /div align="center"emstrongsmallToyota Highlander FCV/small/strong/em - emstrongsmallClick above for high-res image gallery/small/strong/em/divbr /In 2007, Toyota drove one of its hydrogen fuel cell vehicles a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/11/14/la-2007-toyota-fuel-cell-highlander-runs-2300-miles-from-fairba/"from Alaska to Vancouver, British Columbia/a. Earlier that same year, a Toyota FCHV drove from Tokyo to Osaka a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/09/28/toyota-fchv-goes-from-osaka-to-tokyo-on-one-tank-of-h2/"on one tank/a. The company is certainly in favor of at least researching the technology, and it has repeatedly said that it will start series production of a fuel cell vehicle in the middle of the next decade. At one point, Toyota hinted that a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/05/13/toyota-apparently-not-giving-up-on-fuel-cells-may-move-it-up-to/"2014 might mark the big year/a, but that's looking unlikely now. br /br /During a recent shareholders' meeting in Japan, Toyota VP Masatami Takimoto said that Toyota now plans to start production of this new car in 2015. That's still quite soon, as no one expects the hydrogen infrastructure problem to be solved by then. emThanks to Greg B. for the tip!/embr /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/la-2007-toyota-highlander-fuel-cell/"LA 2007: Toyota Highlander Fuel Cell/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/la-2007-toyota-highlander-fuel-cell/489272/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2007/11/higlander-fcv-12807_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/la-2007-toyota-highlander-fuel-cell/489271/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2007/11/higlander-fcv-12809_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/la-2007-toyota-highlander-fuel-cell/489269/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2007/11/higlander-fcv-12805_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/la-2007-toyota-highlander-fuel-cell/489268/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2007/11/higlander-fcv-12808_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/la-2007-toyota-highlander-fuel-cell/489267/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2007/11/higlander-fcv-12802_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jUVcTmtR8EUSTAcaCPQ7HHvDF7wg"AFP/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/23/toyota-reaffirms-2015-release-of-new-hydrogen-car/"Toyota reaffirms 2015 release of new hydrogen vehicle/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:27:00 EST. 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