Hyundai to export heavy-duty hydrogen electrical vehicles to Germany

Hyundai Motor Company is to export 27 of its XCIENT Fuel Cell vehicles to Germany, with the heavy-duty automobiles set for use by companies working in retail, logistics and manufacturing.

In an announcement earlier this week, the automotive big stated a complete of seven firms — it didn’t present their names — would make use of funding from the German authorities to introduce the automobiles to the nation’s roads.

According to Hyundai, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport has a 1.6 billion euro (roughly $1.63 billion) funds for the acquisition of “eco-friendly commercial vehicles.” The funding is accessible till 2024.

The vehicles that will likely be deployed in Germany have a 180-kilowatt hydrogen gasoline cell system and use seven hydrogen tanks. The further energy comes from three batteries. “The maximum driving range is 400 km (a little under 249 miles) per charge,” Hyundai says.

The hydrogen-electric vehicles despatched to Germany will bolster the XCIENT Fuel Cell’s presence in Europe. A complete of 47 have already been despatched to Switzerland, clocking up over 4 million kilometers on the highway as of July this yr.

In Sept. 2021, the Hyundai Motor Group stated it deliberate to develop hydrogen gasoline cell variations of all its industrial car fashions by the yr 2028 and look to introduce a “next generation fuel-cell system” in 2023.

The South Korean enterprise stated its objective was to “achieve a fuel cell vehicle price point comparable to a battery electric vehicle by 2030.”

With governments around the globe trying to cut back the environmental footprint of transportation, a lot of firms within the trucking sector are exploring methods to develop low and zero-emission automobiles, together with ones that use hydrogen.

In June, Volvo Trucks stated it had begun to check automobiles that use “fuel cells powered by hydrogen,” with the Swedish agency saying their vary might lengthen to as a lot as 1,000 kilometers, or somewhat over 621 miles.

Gothenburg-headquartered Volvo Trucks stated refueling of the automobiles would take beneath quarter-hour. Customer pilots are set to start within the subsequent few years, with commercialization “planned for the latter part of this decade.”

The similar month noticed U.Okay.-based startup Tevva launch a hydrogen-electric heavy items car. According to the agency, its car can have a variety of as a lot as 310 miles, or just below 500 kilometers.

Tevva’s first hydrogen-electric truck will weigh 7.5 metric tons, with later variations deliberate to weigh 12 and 19 metric tons.