Suara.com – Pertamina New & Renewable Energy (Pertamina NRE) is collaborating with Toyota to develop a hydrogen ecosystem as vehicle fuel in Indonesia.
In the groundbreaking of the hydrogen refueling station (HRS) today, Wednesday (17/1) at Daan Mogot gas station, both agreed that in building this ecosystem it is not only important to prepare the infrastructure but also to collaborate with consumers to ensure the level of demand.
“Pertamina must be at the forefront of innovation, we must not be followers if we want a clean energy business,” said President Commissioner of PT Pertamina (Persero), Basuki Tjahaja Purnama.
Pertamina and Toyota Collaborate to Develop Hydrogen Ecosystem for Transportation. (Photo: TMMIN)
Meanwhile, Pertamina NRE Chief Executive Officer Dannif Danusaputro said that in creating a hydrogen ecosystem, collaboration is certainly needed not only on the upstream side but also on the downstream side.
“For this reason, we are collaborating with Toyota, which has produced a fuel cell electric vehicle, the Toyota Mirai, which will later carry out hydrogen filling at our HRS,” said Dannif.
On the same occasion, President Director of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN), Nandi Julyanto, said that his party strongly supports studies regarding the development of the hydrogen ecosystem in Indonesia by Pertamina through the Toyota Mirai vehicle with fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) technology as a study vehicle.
“We hope that Pertamina’s study can complement efforts to develop a transportation ecosystem that supports decarbonization. Both in the development of conventional vehicles that are increasingly fuel efficient, vehicles with new and renewable fuels, to vehicles with electrification technologies,” he explained.
For information, the Daan Mogot gas station will be the first integrated energy refueling station in Indonesia, which will provide three types of fuel in one filling station, namely fuel, gas and hydrogen. With the High Speed Hydrogen Refueling Station concept, this HRS will be able to refill hydrogen on a commercial scale with a filling time of less than five minutes.