Toyota Land Cruisers and Hilux vehicles manufactured from the first quarter of 2023 will be made compatible with HVO100 diesel (hydrotreated vegetable oil), a non-fossil fuel made from 100% renewable sources such as waste cooking oils.
They will thus join the light utility Proace.
The main technical modification consists of an adjustment of the fuel injection system.
Since HVO100 is less dense than standard diesel, it is necessary to plan for an increase in the quantities injected.
However, this change does not affect the vehicle's ability to run on conventional fuel.
Better, the use of HVO100 and the adjustment of the injection system lead to a slight increase in the maximum power of the engine.
The HVO100 meets the European quality standard EN 15940 for Paraffinic Diesel.
It has a higher cetane number (c80) than standard Diesel and has a lower sulfur and aromatics content.
It is made from vegetable oil (palm, rapeseed) or waste-based raw materials (eg used cooking oil).
HVO100 fuel pumps are increasingly common at service stations in Europe, with around 1,000 pumps already in use in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands and in Sweden.
Along with more customers switching to HVO100, production is increasing, with the ambition to reach 15.5 million tonnes by 2030, from around 4 million tonnes currently produced per year.
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