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HIROSHIMA —A group of hydrogen-powered motor vehicles will be taken on a rare 540-kilometer road test in western Japan later this month without an accompanying refueling vehicle, an organizer of the project said Wednesday. The prototype green vehicles will be refueled with hydrogen at roadside chemical plants in the test run starting in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27.

The vehicles will be refueled at plants including those in Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures before arriving in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on July 30. The vehicles will also be run on highways. The vehicles to be road-tested include three minivans that can run only with hydrogen—two Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid minivans produced by Mazda and an FCHV-adv fuel-cell hydrogen hybrid minivan by Toyota Motor Corp. The other is Mazda’s hydrogen-gas hybrid car RX-8 Hydrogen RE.

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