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American Toyota Officially Opens First Hydrogen Station To Support Their Products

Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 by Galih

American Toyota Officially Opens First Hydrogen Station To Support Their Products
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), United States, yesterday (10 / 5) inaugurated the first hydrogen refueling in America. Result of cooperation between Toyota, Air Products, Shell, Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and the Department of Energy (DOE). Supply of industrial hydrogen is supplied directly by using a pipe.

This facility is only to provide hydrogen for fuel cell vehicle demonstration programs such as Toyota as owned by other manufacturers in Los Angeles.

"Building a hydrogen refueling infrastructure is an important step in helped the success of vehicle sales," commented Chris Hostetter, group vice president, Product & Strategy Planning TMS. According to Chris, it will start selling hydrogen vehicles by 2015 or it could be faster. So, the infrastructure must be there first to support the needs of customers.

The place is close to the same charge of sales and marketing headquarters TMS. As the owner of the land, Toyota leases land to Shell as a nominal fee. Shell is the operator in cooperation with Air Product, which provides equipment, including gas pipeline from its plant in Wilmington and Carson, California.

"This is the first time Shell is working with vehicle manufacturers to develop a demonstration station,"said Julian Evison, General Manager of Operations for Shell.

While Air Products has a role to develop the Hydrogen Vehicle Authorization System (HVAS). This being the first for the industry and is unique in Torrance.

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