Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has said that it has developed a fuel cell vehicle to run on public roads for verification testing for the first time and plans to begin tests by the end of the year, Dow Jones reports.

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The report says that Mitsubishi is using a fuel cell system developed by DaimlerChrylser, its alliance partner.

Mitsubishi Motors has installed DaimlerChrysler’s fuel-cell system in its Grandis minivan, Hiromitsu Ando, an executive office of Mitsubishi Motors’ research and development office, told Dow Jones.

“We’re not considering leasing” our fuel cell vehicles anytime soon, Ando said, as “only a limited number of customers can provide hydrogen on their own” at present.

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