Mazda has taken a bold step toward the practical application of hydrogen as a fuel for cars — it recently opened an H2 filling station near the company's global headquarters in Hiroshima.
The station, which can refuel only 10 cars per day, will support Mazda's plans to lease vehicles fitted with rotary engines using hydrogen and gasoline for fuel. No word yet on whether the world's loneliest filling station will serve nachos.
[Update: Regarding hydrogen filling stations in the US, one reader writes,
"There's at least one BP station in CA, and there's a Shell hydrogen station on Benning Road in DC, one going in in New York, and one being sited for, I believe, Philadelphia; I think the plan is to create East and West Coast hydrogen highways, with fueling stations every 250 miles to start, then 125, then 50, etc., until they get to about 25 miles apart by 2010; at some intermediate point, they'd start going east-west as well..."
Looks like this hydrogen thing is getting its legs.]
Mazda Opens H2 Station in Japan [Green Car Congress]
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Fuel-Efficient Hydrogen Power: The Hy-Light [internal]