This station will be used to supply hydrogen to the range of fuel cell vehicles to be tested in Japan by domestic and foreign automotive manufacturers, regardless of the particular affiliation. The fuelling station will also be used to examine some of the issues surrounding construction of a hydrogen supply infrastructure, in particular the respective storage technologies of compressed and liquid hydrogen.
Together with hydrogen filling stations already constructed in Germany and California, this means that the three major economic regions will now have an opportunity to run trial fleets for fuel cell vehicles. The success of these trials, whether in terms of operation of the vehicles themselves or in terms of efficiency and safety of refuelling, will determine the approach taken in further field trials and the early stages of commercialisation.