Car and Energy Sectors Actually Move toward Early Stage Market of FCVs in Japan

The Japanese FCV industries, including car and energy, take a large step toward the early stage market of FCVs in 2015.

Recently, in Japan, three big automakers and ten energy companies issued a joint statement declaring that the companies make active efforts to build the infrastructure for supplying hydrogen gas to fuel cell vehicles (FCV), which will enter the early market stage in around 2015. About 100 hydrogen stations will be built in the major metropolitan cities of Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka and Fukuoka.

The FCV driving demonstration test using FCV buses has started from the middle of December last year. The FCV buses regularly run on the routes, including the highway, between Haneda airport and two locations in Tokyo. The demonstration test using the hired-car will be conducted before long. The hired-car runs on the highway between Narita airport and the center of Tokyo.

The way for the hydrogen station to obtain hydrogen gas is different between 1) the hydrogen station coupled to the bus route and 2) that coupled to the hired-car route.
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