TOKYO (Bloomberg) – Japan’s three biggest automakers plan to help take care of the expense of working hydrogen stations in the nation to advance autos powered by fuel cells.

Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. furthermore, Honda Motor Co. will cover as much as one third of working costs for stations keep running by infrastructure organizations, they said in a joint explanation in Tokyo today. The backing will be topped at 11 million yen ($90,000) a station. The project will keep running until around 2020 and cost an expected 5 billion yen to 6 billion yen, said Kiyotaka Ise, senior managing officer at Toyota.

Japan is wanting to construct hydrogen distribution facilities to empower the utilization of what Toyota has called the up and coming era of auto innovation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the country will make a “hydrogen society,” with fuel cells additionally fueling homes and office structures.

“Energy cells vehicles running on hydrogen are electric vehicles without the compramise, for example, range uneasiness and long holds up before charging stations,” Thanh Ha Pham, a Tokyo-based examiner at Jefferies Group LLC, said in a report. “We expect expanding concentrate on this innovation.”

Analyst Fuji Keizai gauges that Japan’s business for hydrogen utilized as a part of energy component vehicles will develop to right around 100 billion yen by financial 2025 from 400 million yen this monetary year.

Toyota presented an fuel car, the Mirai, a year ago, and Honda has said it will begin offering a hydrogen car this monetary year. Honda intends to present a vehicle that can drive more than 700 kilometers (435 miles) on a solitary charge, Operating Officer Toshihiro Mibe said today in Tokyo.

Japan’s national and local governments have likewise said they will subsidize the expense of working hydrogen stations.