This new Toyota contains $15,000 of free gas, may price $17,000

• Southern California buyers would possibly rise up to 70% off hydrogen fuel-cell Mirai
• Bay Space prospects can get reductions too
• Gross sales have slowed, and the worth of hydrogen has soared

If you happen to dwell in Southern California, you should purchase a brand new Toyota for about the price of the most cost effective subcompact automotive—with $15,000 of free gas.

That automotive is the 2024 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell sedan. CarsDirect reviews that Toyota is providing reductions of as much as 70% off the bottom XLE grade, which is often priced at $51,285 (together with vacation spot). That brings the worth all the way down to $17,005 with vacation spot, or inside just a few hundred {dollars} of a gasoline Nissan Versa sedan. The Mirai Restricted, which usually retails for $68,210 after vacation spot, now prices simply $25,210 with this low cost.

Like different fuel-cell vehicles, the Mirai is simply accessible in California as a result of different states lack adequate fueling infrastructure. However these offers solely apply to residents within the southern portion of the state. Reductions in Northern California are decrease, however nonetheless important—at $25,000 off the XLE and $33,000 off the Restricted. Toyota can also be, for now, providing lease incentives of as much as $7,500.

Mirai prospects additionally get $15,000 of free gas over as much as six years, a perk Toyota was already providing. In XLE trim, the Mirai returns 72 miles per kilogram of hydrogen, in keeping with the automaker, so this credit score nonetheless quantities to greater than 30,000 free miles even on the peak worth of $34.55/kg California skilled final October.

That was solely the most recent in a line of provide disruptions affecting consumer-level fuel-cell autos lately—as an infrastructure for business vans and trade builds out. An unreliable hydrogen provide has seemingly contributed to sluggish gross sales of the Mirai. Toyota reviews that within the U.S. it delivered simply 499 of the fuel-cell sedans in 2024, down from 2,737 in 2023.

2024 Toyota Mirai

The Mirai is not a foul automotive. Whereas the primary technology felt akin to a Prius, the present technology looks like a luxurious automotive, with journey high quality, dealing with, and low noise, vibration, and harshness ranges akin to the gasoline and hydrid sedans from Toyota’s upmarket Lexus model.

Whereas Toyota claims the current-generation Mirai successfully cleans the air as you drive—what the automaker calls “minus emissions”—hydrogen must be cleanly produced and available for that to occur. Research earlier this decade urged that hydrogen would change into greener and even cost-competitive with gasoline by the tip of the last decade. However the worth of hydrogen has as an alternative soared.