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CO2-neutral brown coal from Australia to fuel future hydrogen-powered cars as demand increases, says Toyota

Australian brown coal will play a significant part in generating the hydrogen fuel required for the predicted boom in fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) in the coming decades, says Toyota.
The world’s largest car-maker is confident hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles are the way of the future and is injecting huge amounts of cash into the development of FCVs and the refuelling stations to support them.

And its hydrogen experts say that by 2020, Toyota will begin processing brown coal from Australia to help create the fuel to power FCVs of the future.
However, Toyota’s project manager for the Mirai FCV, Hitoshi Nomasa, told motoring.com.au during a test drive of the car in Japan last week that the process of obtaining hydrogen fuel from brown coal in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley will be “clean and green”.
“The target is around 2020 for the [hydrogen processing] pilot plant,” he said through an interpreter, confirming that the hydrogen would be shipped to Japan in giant contained ships.


http://www.motoring.com.au/australian-coal-to-power-fcv-boom-54857/