Hyundai's Xcient positioned for instant US fuel cell truck leadership -35 trucks coming in '23

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Hyundai’s Xcient positioned for instant US fuel cell truck leadership

With 35 trucks coming in ’23, South Korean automaker will lead all contenders

FreightWaves | Alan Adler | November 29, 2022

Like a political candidate running unopposed, Hyundai Motor will passively assume U.S. leadership in hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks next year when 35 Xcient models arrive in California.

Hyundai has competition in the zero-emission trucking space. But none is likely to match the South Korean automaker. It has worked on fuel cell technology since 1998. And it and fielded its first fuel cell vehicle, a 160-kilowatt bus, in 2005.

The Xcient essentially doubles the 90-kW fuel cell stack technology in its Nexo fuel cell SUV. The 180kW is capable of powering a heavy-duty truck. A 72-kilowatt battery effectively makes the Xcient a parallel hybrid. It can run on pure electricity or hydrogen. The approach is similar to the GenH2 heavy-duty truck from Daimler Truck and its cell-centric joint venture partner Volvo Group.

Hyundai Xcient logs 3 million miles in Switzerland

The Xcient has amassed more than 3 million miles of real-world use in Switzerland, where 47 of the trucks have been running for two years. They are now being introduced in Germany. Both countries offered subsidies to offset the cost of the technology... more
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hyundais-xcient-positioned-for-instant-us-fuel-cell-truck-leadership

Why Switzerland? Because if a Hydrogen Truck works there it will work anywhere in Europe.

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Solar-to-hydrogen project to be first stop on a California-to-Texas “hydrogen highway”

PV-Magazine-usa.com | Ryan Kennedy | November 28, 2022

Fusion Fuel, a modular solar-to-hydrogen facility provider based in Portugal, and Electus Energy, a hydrogen fleet-fueling and power infrastructure developer, announced the two have entered an exclusive joint venture agreement to construct a 75 MW green hydrogen facility in Bakersfield, California.

The proposed project is a solar-to-hydrogen site that would make use of Fusion Fuel’s proprietary hydrogen electrolyzer technology, called HEVO. The company said the facility, its first in the United States, would produce up to 9,300 tons of hydrogen fuel per year to fuel heavy-duty trucks.

Fusion Fuel’s HEVO technology is a miniaturized electrolyzer, affixed to the back of concentrated solar power (CSP) panel, which utilizes both photovoltaic-generated electricity and thermal energy. By using both heat and electricity, the electrolyzer’s efficiency is boosted considerably, thereby reducing the levelized cost of green hydrogen, said the company. The technology also uses dual-axis trackers to follow the sun throughout the day...more
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/28/solar-to-hydrogen-project-to-be-first-stop-on-a-california-to-texas-hydrogen-highway/

The Hydrogen Revolution (per Nature.com - The world's most prestigious scientific journal) Continues...

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1. Fascinating--thank you!