Hyundai Brings XCIENT Hydrogen Truck To The U.S.

Hyundai believes that hydrogen gas cell automobiles will play an essential half within the mobility trade and at a current occasion in Anaheim, California, showcased the commercialized model of the category 8 XCIENT gas cell truck within the U.S. for the primary time.

The automaker first launched the XCIENT gas cell markets again in 2020 in Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Korea, and New Zealand and over the previous three years, examples have been pushed over a mixed 4 million miles. The model displayed in California is the 6×4 variant that encompasses a pair of 90 kW hydrogen gas cell methods in addition to a 350 kW electrical motor. It has a driving vary of over 450 miles (724 km) with a most 82,000 lbs (~37,000 kg) load.

This gas cell system was developed by Hyundai’s hydrogen vitality enterprise, HWTO, which additionally manufactures its proprietary gas cell methods for air mobility, vehicles, vessels, and trains.

Whereas Hyundai didn’t reveal when the XCIENT will hit the roads of the U.S., it famous that it plans to determine a robust hydrogen valve chain within the U.S. This effort shall be led by the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America facility in Georgia, already designated because the model’s solely devoted EV manufacturing unit within the U.S. This facility shall be able to producing as much as 300,000 EVs yearly and can embody an eco-friendly logistics system and likewise use hydrogen gas cell vans.

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“We firmly imagine that hydrogen is without doubt one of the strongest and pragmatic options for attaining our imaginative and prescient of ‘Progress for Humanity’ with emission-free mobility as a elementary pillar for a sustainable society,” government vice chairman and head of World Business Automobile and Hydrogen Gas Cell Enterprise at Hyundai Motor, Ken Ramirez stated.

“Our hydrogen gas cell know-how has pioneered the trade, with a real-world confirmed monitor file of its effectivity and sturdiness. We’re leveraging these deserves to additional rework transportation with hydrogen vitality for a broad vary of mobility functions, together with industrial automobiles, marine vessels and even air mobility. We now look past mobility towards an built-in hydrogen ecosystem, from manufacturing of hydrogen to its storage, transport and supply. Hyundai is uniquely positioned to cowl all facets and ship a seamless resolution throughout the worth chain,” Ramirez added.