Hyundai Motor has secured $3.5 million in 2021 Focused Airshed Grant (TAG) funding from the US Environmental Safety Company (EPA) to deploy 5 XCIENT Gas Cell electrical vans in California.
The XCIENT Gas Cell 6×4 tractor mannequin collaborating within the demonstration is supplied with a 180 kW gas cell system and e-motor with a most output of 350 kW. The tractor’s hydrogen tank can maintain 67 kg of hydrogen with the battery offering 72 kWh for a gross mixed weight of 37,200 kg to ship a mean vary of greater than 450 miles per tank.
First Component Gas (FEF), the biggest hydrogen-refueling station operator within the US, will deploy the Class-8 heavy-duty vans to ship liquified hydrogen to their refueling stations for the subsequent 5 years, together with one 12 months of demonstration with reporting duties to US EPA and 4 years of business operation.
This challenge is led by the South Coast Air High quality Administration District (South Coast AQMD), which utilized for the TAG funding.
EPA’s TAG program goals to scale back air air pollution in areas of the nation with the best ranges of ambient ozone and positive particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution. The main target of the TAG program is to offer funding help to initiatives that: 1) straight scale back emissions from precedence emission sources; 2) generate measurable reductions of ozone, PM2.5, and/or precursor emissions; and three) assist Nationwide Ambient Air High quality Requirements (NAAQS) attainment in a number of of the nation’s most impacted airsheds.
Below the TAG program, eligible state and native air air pollution management companies should straight apply to EPA, however can choose companions for a challenge consortium. For the 2021 TAG program, Hyundai Motor partnered with South Coast AQMD and FEF to develop a TAG software to assist the alternative of FEF’s diesel-powered hydrogen transport vans with gas cell electrical automobiles.
Having been chosen because the truck provider for this TAG challenge, Hyundai Motor expects to exhibit its gas cell electrical heavy-duty truck know-how in a long-haul transport operation.
Final 12 months, Hyundai Motor additionally introduced its NorCal Zero challenge, often known as Zero-Emission Regional Truck Operations with Gas Cell Electrical Vehicles. (Earlier submit.) Hyundai Motor will start working 30 Class 8 XCIENT Gas Cell electrical vans in California beginning within the second quarter of 2023. This would be the largest industrial deployment of Class 8 hydrogen gas cell electrical vans within the US.
Launched in 2020 by Hyundai Motor, XCIENT Gas Cell is the world’s first mass-produced hydrogen gas cell electrical heavy-duty truck. The corporate has already deployed 47 models in Switzerland the place they’ve gathered greater than 4 million kilometers in driving as of July 2022.
