Hyundai expects to start a 1,000-unit production run of a fuel cell electric vehicle, possibly the Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle you see above.
The ix35 FCEV is a third-generation fuel-cell vehicle from Hyundai, and is equipped with a 100 kW fuel cell stack and two 700 bar hydrogen storage tanks. It can do about 520 km on a full tank of hydrogen, and can hit a top speed of 160 km/h. The range and top speed actually sounds very usable in the real world, with the only issue being where to refuel your car with hydrogen.
That’s why the first 1,000 units will go to government and private fleets, who can afford to install the necessary infrastructure to support refueling on their own. But of course even then it would limit the range of travel to within the radius of a station. Hyundai intends to start mass production of FCEVs for 2015.
Sometime last year we saw the Hyundai Blue2 Concept, Hyundai’s first sedan-style FCEV concept. Will we be seeing that one go into production, or was it just a design study that previews a next generation of cleaner and more mature Hyundai styling after the current flashy edgy fluidic sculpture design?
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Meanwhile in Malaysia, Proton, Perodua, Tan Chong, Naza need numbnuts to ridicule opposition’s plan of reducing car prices just to survive, not to thrive.
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520 km? That is good. Even better if that number is true in real life driving.
The problem with the Nissan Leaf (electric) is that the 160 km range they claim is maybe 100 km in real life when you use air condition, headlights, the radio etc. How can we not use air condition in Malaysia when it is 35 C outside? And then Leaf takes many hours to recharge. In that time you just have to sit and wait.
I don’t know how long it takes to fill hydrogen, but I imagine it would be similar to filling petrol? Which means you can get going again instead of waiting all day.
But ……
No resale value. Stay away from Korean Cars with a 10 foot pole
Nice if you buy 2nd hand. A Sonata for half the price of Camry/Accord.
I think Proton initially had a better ideas – extended EV with a small petrol or diesel engine inside just to charge the lithium ion batteries will do just fine and handing is less dangerous than gases like Hydrogen. It just needed a plug-in to complete the job and the way it will goes up in a tremendous sales. Just do it quick “PROTON”.
Tremendous sales? Proton??!!
And we are just getting a turbo-charged Proton ??? Damned, I forgot the name of the new Proton models….my bad :(