Toyota Motor Corp. is assisting the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA) with its plans to develop a fishing boat powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
The first vessel will be a small boat to be used for tuna farming and is expected to go into commercialisation in 2022.
Speaking exclusively to gasworld, FRA President Masanori Miyahara explained the reasons behind the project, “A small, rural island called Goto has a lot of problems including diminishing population, high living and energy costs, and limited income sources.”
“The island built a wind farm power plant at sea, but cannot use the produced electricity by itself. Then it also built a facility to produce hydrogen by use of the electricity, but no significant users exist in the island.”
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