If you've ever been moved to test a car's reliability, you could do worse than giving it to a cab driver – high mileages and intensive duty cycles tell you an awful lot about a vehicle. So where better to test a fleet of hydrogen fuel-cell cars than in that unforgiving environment?
Since 2015 a fleet of Toyota Mirai cars has been through just such a wringer with Green Tomato Cars (GTC), an ethical car company based in west London. Its 50 Mirais, which comprise 15 per cent of its total fleet, have covered well over a million miles between them.
"Certainly we broke a million miles last year," says GTC founder Jonny Goldstone. "We must be well on the way to two million now."
How can car hire be ethical?
GTC was founded in 2006 to provide taxi and driver services, while managing a tricky balancing act of being decent to customers,...
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