“There is no dedicated infrastructure”
It is true that we are in the early stages of developing a network for making, distributing and selling hydrogen fuel. We know that providing these facilities is essential to support the first fuel cell vehicle customers and as a manufacturer we are active in promoting infrastructure development with industry and government partners, for example through our participation with in Europe’s Hyfive project. We also take an active role in the Clean Energy Partnership, Europe’s largest hydrogen mobility demonstration project, and UKH2Mobility which is promoting the commercial deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the UK.
Progress is being made and at the time of Mirai’s launch in 2015, there were already 40 refuelling stations in the European countries where it went on sale, with hundreds more scheduled to follow. As well as securing a good number of sites, it is important that these are strategically located, serving major cities and principal routes that link them.