Hydrogen refueling station collocating with gas station to be demonstration-tested

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation will conduct a hydrogen refueling demonstration test during a period from Feb. 2013 to March 2016. In the test, a hydrogen refueling station collocates with a normal gas station. The test will grasp and understand problems through actual hydrogen refueling service towards the 2015 FCV commercialization. Two ways to refuel the FCVs with hydrogen gas will be employed; one way is based the self-refueling and the other way is based on the serviceman refueling. This type of demonstration test is the first in Japan. Japan is behind schedule in hydrogen refueling infrastructure installation. The installation retardation is due to some legal controls. The government has announced to remove those legal controls and also to build a number of hydrogen refueling stations. >> More