Hyundai Motor Firm (Hyundai Motor) has shared its hydrogen imaginative and prescient and launched its U.S. clear logistics enterprise powered by the corporate’s Class 8 XCIENT Gasoline Cell electrical truck on the Superior Clear Transportation (ACT) Expo 2024.
The corporate is exhibiting the XCIENT Gasoline Cell truck and gas cell system, together with digital displays, demonstrating the car enhancement idea and its hydrogen worth chain applied sciences, from Could 20–23 on the Las Vegas Conference Heart.
Hydrogen society roadmap: At Hyundai Motor’s press convention, Ken Ramirez, Government Vice President and Head of World Industrial Automobile and Hydrogen Enterprise at Hyundai Motor, highlighted on Tuesday the corporate’s dedication to constructing a hydrogen society. He spoke concerning the true worth of hydrogen and the way Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) is leveraging its associates’ cross-industry capabilities spanning your entire hydrogen worth chain — from hydrogen manufacturing and storage to logistics, transport and numerous purposes — to comprehend the corporate’s imaginative and prescient for a hydrogen society.
Earlier this yr, Hyundai Motor introduced a imaginative and prescient for the HTWO model’s increasing function within the hydrogen worth chain, signaling that it will likely be the catalyst for a world power transition. Hyundai Motor goals to comprehend its imaginative and prescient for a hydrogen society by leveraging the Group’s built-in capabilities throughout varied industries.
“Our HTWO model’s increasing function displays Hyundai’s distinctive attain past mobility into an built-in hydrogen worth chain to guide the worldwide power transition,” Ramirez stated. “We’re like no different power firm with roots deeply grounded in mobility – and we’re like no different mobility firm with branches up to now reaching into power. Our mission has at all times been clear: leverage our strengths in each mobility and power sectors to comprehend our imaginative and prescient for a hydrogen society.”
Becoming a member of the presentation, Jim Park, Senior Vice President and Head of Industrial Automobile and Hydrogen Enterprise Improvement at Hyundai Motor North America, detailed the corporate’s rollout of its Class 8 XCIENT Gasoline Cell electrical vans in key U.S. hydrogen logistics initiatives, together with the NorCAL ZERO Mission and Clear Logistics Mission as additional proof of the corporate’s dedication.
Final yr via the NorCAL ZERO Mission, Hyundai Motor deployed 30 XCIENT Gasoline Cell vans on the Port of Oakland and Port of Richmond to haul freight containers and autos, marking the only largest business deployment of Class 8 heavy-duty hydrogen gas cell electrical vans in North America. In Georgia, the corporate is engaged on the Clear Logistics Mission at its Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA), to decarbonize the corporate’s manufacturing facility.
“This landmark port decarbonization initiative in California serves as a chief instance of how hydrogen vans are paving the best way in direction of sustainable future logistics,” Park stated. “By replicating the success of NorCAL ZERO and tailoring it to particular buyer wants, we at Hyundai purpose to create a worldwide community of unpolluted, hydrogen-powered operations.”
Hyundai Motor is actively working to decarbonize its captive logistics via the Clear Logistics Mission. This yr, the corporate will take a big step by deploying XCIENT Gasoline Cell vans to its facility in Georgia. This deployment will start Hyundai Motor’s efforts to scale back emissions from its inner logistics operations.
HTWO Logistics: Glenn Clift, Government Director of GLOVIS America, a number one logistics supplier that shares Hyundai Motor’s hydrogen imaginative and prescient, joined the press convention as a visitor speaker to introduce HTWO Logistics, a partnership for benchmarking in sustainable logistics options revolving round HMGMA.
“Our clear logistics operation in Georgia offers particularly with lowering the carbon emission of inbound and outbound transportation round our new manufacturing facility,” Clift stated. “By HTWO Logistics, we are going to companion with Hyundai Motor in establishing a worth chain of unpolluted hydrogen manufacturing, provide, refueling and zero-emission autos to deal with the logistics, making a hydrogen mobility ecosystem in and round Georgia’s Metaplant.”
By this partnership, the 2 corporations will leverage a complete suite of HTWO options to maximise carbon emissions discount. By gaining beneficial insights from this mission, the businesses purpose to copy this success mannequin globally, additional increasing Hyundai Motor’s HTWO enterprise.
XCIENT gas cell truck on show at ACT Expo 2024: The XCIENT Gasoline Cell truck with a 6×4 drive axle configuration is on show at Hyundai Motor’s sales space together with a hydrogen gas cell system. The truck will probably be proven along with digital displays demonstrating the corporate’s HTWO Grid options and the enhancement idea of the XCIENT Gasoline Cell truck. The corporate can also be working an XCIENT Gasoline Cell truck check drive program on the Expo (Could 21-22).
: Consistent with Hyundai Motor’s steady dedication to customer-driven innovation, the corporate digitally previewed the enhancement idea of its XCIENT Gasoline Cell truck.
The enhancement idea movies on show present a 12.3-inch fully-digital instrument cluster, providing drivers clear and concise info at a look, and a 12.3-inch contact display infotainment system with bodily buttons built-in into the middle console for driver comfort.
