Toyota Reunites Doc Brown and Marty McFly to Promote Its New Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car

Back to the Future's tech is real (sort of)

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In the seminal 1989 film Back to the Future II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown take a trip from the 1980s to the future date of Oct. 21, 2015. They travel in a junky DeLorean that Doc Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd, rigs to be powered by fuel cell technology.

Now, Toyota has a variation of the hydrogen fuel cell technology the film predicted. It powers the new Mirai model, and the automaker reunited Michael J.

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