Today, 15 January, exactly a month after Japan opened taking orders for the world's first serial vodorodomobil Toyota Mirai. As have informed in the press service of the Japanese auto giant, for the first 30 days, the company received approximately 1500 applications from private and corporate customers; pre-sales forecast this figure exceeds the amazing 50 times.
And indeed, initially for 2015 Toyota wanted to sell 400 copies sedan with a 150-horsepower electric motor that uses energy hydrogen fuel cells, that is just a little over 30 cars per month. 1500 cars per month are not counted either marketers or producers, so turn on Mirai may take a couple of years. By the way, individuals make up about 40% of buyers of such a high percentage in Toyota also did not expect.
We do not take into account the foreign markets on which vodorodomobil will come out gradually in the course of this year. In the U.S., for example, Mirai will cost one third less than in Japan (about $ 45,000 against the equivalent of 62,000 dollars), so environmentally conscious Californians will probably line up in a long queue for the machine, emit only distilled water. By the way, the leasing scheme is already calculated and is $ 499 per month instalments over three years and the initial payment in 3,649 $ ... it Seems that Toyota is time to build five or six new plants for the Assembly of Mirai.