The largest fuel distributor in Japan, JX Holdings, plans to install 2,000 service stations -for vehicles running on hydrogen fuel-cell 2020, said Monday the Nikkei business daily.
JX produce hydrogen in ten centers throughout the archipelago.
The first station will start operating this month in Kanagawa Prefecture (suburbs of Tokyo), and 40 will do so in the capital region over the course of 2015.
“Subsequently, monitor developments in the adoption of fuel cell vehicles, JX provides equip up to 2,000 outlets with reservoirs and pumps to supply hydrogen,” the newspaper without giving its source.
JX projects a plan of this magnitude betting on new technologies, and reduce to about half the cost of distribution and supply of hydrogen, Nikkei said.
Indeed, Japan has hydrogen as the energy source of the future, particularly for fuel cell cars (by oxidation of hydrogen, which generates electrons), which does not release carbon dioxide (CO2).
The first Japanese automobile manufacturer, Toyota officially launched in Japan a week ago his model “Mirai” the first sedan powered by hydrogen wheel.
