Yamaha backs hydrogen as clean option

Taking the lead: Hidaka (right), talks with Toshihiro Mibe, president and chief executive officer of Honda Motor Co during the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima. He has promised to develop hydrogen as a source of fuel. — Bloomberg

TOKYO: Yamaha Motor Co is backing hydrogen as a clean and viable option for reaching carbon neutrality and will develop it as a source of fuel, president and chief executive officer Yoshihiro Hidaka says.

“We would like to keep many possibilities – opportunities – to achieve carbon neutrality,” Hidaka said in an interview at Yamaha’s headquarters in Shizuoka, about 200km southwest of Tokyo.