- XCIENT Fuel Cell to be the world’s first heavy-duty gasoline cell truck to realize 5 million km of cumulative driving in real-life buyer operation
- A complete of 47 hydrogen-powered industrial vehicles are in operation at 23 Swiss firms within the fields of logistics, distribution and grocery store success
- Hyundai to leverage insights from various public-private partnerships to additional drive industrial car decarbonization
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Hyundai Motor Company as we speak introduced that its fleet of XCIENT Fuel Cell heavy-duty vehicles in Switzerland has gathered greater than 5 million km in two years. Starting in 2020, the corporate exported 47 items of the hydrogen-powered, zero-emission industrial vehicles to 23 Swiss firms, that are utilizing them for logistics, distribution and grocery store success.
“XCIENT Fuel Cell is the world’s first heavy-duty fuel cell truck to achieve 5 million km of cumulative driving in real-life customer operation,” mentioned Mark Freymueller, Senior Vice President and Head of Commercial Vehicle Business Innovation at Hyundai Motor Company. “The experience we’ve gained and the milestone we’ve achieved in Switzerland will provide good insights to many countries that are preparing to transition to a sustainable hydrogen society. Based on this proven track record of successful operation in Switzerland, we’ll expand this business throughout Europe.”
In 2019 Hyundai Motor established Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility (HHM) in partnership with Swiss firm H2 Energy which partnered with H2 Mobility Switzerland Association, a hydrogen fueling community builder and XCIENT buyer, and inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing firm Hydrospider. Hyundai Motor is taking part in a vital position in creating an emission-free, inexperienced hydrogen gasoline cell heavy-duty truck ecosystem the place car provide, hydrogen fueling, and inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing are organically linked.
The XCIENT Fuel Cell is supplied with a 180-kW hydrogen gasoline cell system with two 90-kW gasoline cell stacks. The system’s sturdiness and the car’s general gasoline effectivity are tailor-made to the calls for of economic fleet prospects. The 350-kW e-motor with most torque of two,237 Nm permits dynamic driving efficiency. Its seven massive hydrogen tanks provide a mixed storage capability of round 31 kg of gasoline, whereas a 72-kWh-powered set of three batteries helps the efficiency. The driving vary is over 400 km per cost in actual world situations. Refueling a full tank of hydrogen takes about 8 to twenty minutes, relying on the ambient temperature.
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