Hyunday Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

Hyunday Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Front Side Top View

Hyundai completion of the development of next-generation fuel cell vehicle, the Tucson Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle ix. The model should begin testing next year, 2015 in preparation for a series production model. The FCEV, which is the third generation with a 100 kilowatt fuel cell and hydrogen storage tanks 700 two bar.

According to the manufacturer, the hydrogen Tucson travel 650 kilometers (400 miles) and start at temperatures down to minus 25 degrees Celsius. This means that the SUV almost to the top in the field of fuel cell vehicles (the Toyota FCHV-adv will be more than 690 km or 431 miles, in some tests). It is also 76 percent more efficient than the second-generation Tucson FCEV, the 370 km (230 miles) on a reduced fee.

More than 95 percent of the Tucson FCEV ix the parts were manufactured in Korea, in close cooperation with some 120 domestic auto parts manufacturers. Total volume of the fuel cell system has been reduced by 20 percent over the previous system with modularization of large parts in the fuel cell system including fuel cell stack, balance of plant (BOP), inverters and power outlet.

Hyundai plans to make a limited supply of the Tucson FCEV IX in 2012 and begin mass production in 2015. The new model will be gasoline-equivalent fuel economy of 31 kilometers per liter (about 73 mpg), a 15 percent improvement over the previous version. Top speed is rated at 160 km / h (99 mph).

Fuel cells are one of the most economical ways to build a green car, but also one of the most difficult to put into practice. A major concern is the lack of infrastructure, lack of hydrogen filling stations make such models to influence the future.