Hyundai outlines future hydrogen plans, revised fuel cell coming in 2023

(Pocket-lint) - Hyundai is investing a batch successful hydrogen. Having prototyped the Hyundai ix35 with a substance compartment successful 2013 and much precocious the Nexo, plans to connection hydrogen arsenic a viable alternate to artillery electrical proceed apace.

Hyundai, talking astatine its Hydrogen Wave forum, outlined ambitions to beryllium capable to contiguous hydrogen substance compartment vehicles astatine a comparable terms constituent to artillery electrical vehicles by 2030.

A caller hydrogen substance cell volition beryllium unveiled successful 2023, which volition regenerate the exemplary presently successful the Nexo. The third-gen substance compartment volition travel successful 2 powerfulness versions - 100kW and 200kW - and it volition beryllium the 100kW mentation which makes its mode into rider vehicles.

The caller 100kW substance compartment is immoderate 30 per cent smaller than the existent offering, portion costs person been lowered by arsenic overmuch arsenic 50 per cent.

The 200kW substance compartment is astir the aforesaid size arsenic the existent generation, but is destined to powerfulness commercialized vehicles, wherever Hyundai sees plentifulness of potential.

With precocious durability besides a consideration, these substance compartment stacks could powerfulness a conveyance for 500,000 kilometres successful their lifetime.

Hyundai sees hydrogen arsenic a solution to galore powerfulness needs and plans to motorboat a afloat scope of commercialized vehicles including buses and trucks. These volition beryllium appearing from Hyundai by 2028.

For those who don't know, hydrogen substance cells usage hydrogen to make energy - they don't pain the hydrogen. In essence, erstwhile you get past the substance cell's procreation of electricity, hydrogen vehicles thrust precise overmuch similar immoderate different electrical car.

The vantage they connection is the imaginable for faster refuelling. Filling hydrogen tanks connected the conveyance is faster than recharging a battery, but there's precise small infrastructure for hydrogen astatine present.

Beyond vehicles, Hyundai is besides looking astatine hydrogen for different vigor solutions, home and commercial, substance compartment generators and antithetic formats for usage successful antithetic conveyance types.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 7 September 2021.