Japan needs scale to make hydrogen imports viable

摘要

The postponement of the Olympic Games, where Japan planned to make fuel-cell vehicles the official means of transport, has done nothing to reduce the country's need for scale in its budding hydrogen economy. Hydrogen is "very much on the strategic agenda" says Tim Buckley at think-tank the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis in Sydney. The postponement of the Olympics, he says, gives Japan an extra year to make its hydrogen economy "more credible, rather than a show pony".