In 2017, Toyota removed its manufacturing activities from Australia. However, the former car factory will not be left behind: Toyota transforms it into a hydrogen knowledge center.
Australia is currently out of the reach of hydrogen-based transport, but their slowness is not a disinterested one: the continental country's intention is to become the world's number one hydrogen exporter in the short term. This can be helped by the world-leading patent for converting hydrogen into ammonia, and then back to it: it enables the economical and safe transport of hydrogen.
It is no coincidence that Toyota is also setting up its H2 headquarters in Victoria, where the world's first hydrogen export is about to begin. An amount of one and a half billion HUF will be spent on the transformation of the former Altonian manufacturing plant: the Education and Training Center will be opened this year, the hydrogen production and filling infrastructure will be operational by 2020.
Last year, Toyota began the public road tests of the Mirai hydrogen fuel cell sedan; After two months of good experience, the Australian public can use the car for five months.
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