Toyota Motor Corporation is partnering with ENEOS Corporation to explore the utilisation and application of hydrogen energy at Woven City.
The prototype city of the future that Toyota has started to develop in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Woven Planet which is a subsidiary of Toyota, ENEOS and Toyota leading the Woven City project intends to conduct testing and demonstration in areas related to hydrogen based supply chain, from production, delivery to usage of hydrogen in and around Woven City.
The primary motive is to achieve carbon-neutral society by the year 2050 as Japan and other countries around the globe have committed.
ENEOS is one of the leading company in hydrogen business, operating around 45 commercial hydrogen refuelling stations in the four major areas in Japan.
Anticipating a society with hydrogen mass consumption to promote overall low carbon use of energy, the company ENEOS is also developing technologies that facilitate hydrogen production.
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Motor Corporation, Akio Toyoda, said:
”We are very pleased to have ENEOS as our core partner to validate the hydrogen society in Woven City.”
He also added, ENEOS being one of the Japan’s leading integrated energy company it has demonstrated its valuable expertise in all process from production to sales of hydrogen,
And Toyota is confident about ENEOS’s holistic perspective required for success, to realise a hydrogen based society, in addition to the evolution of individual technologies, it is essential to seamlessly integrate all the process of production, delivery and use.
To develop hydrogen throughout Japan and the world the company will work with ENEOS and the local community, the human centred approach to the real world of Woven city will help Toyota to explore the practical details of hydrogen based lifestyles and technologies.
About ENEOS Corporation
ENEOS is one of the leading energy company in Japan and aspires to be one among the globe as well, It has developed businesses in the energy and nonferrous metals segments, from upstream to downstream.
