Hyundai’s next-generation hydrogen-powered car will be a bespoke design, as the firm bids to challenge the Toyota Mirai for supremacy in the emerging fuel cell market.
Both Hyundai and Toyota put the first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on sale this year, but while the Mirai is a bespoke design, Hyundai’s model is based on the existing - and now superseded - ix35 SUV. Hyundai embarked on the project using an existing platform as a result of its pledge to sell a hydrogen car to any customer anywhere in the world and without a lead time of more than three months...
...“We will launch a dedicated vehicle, although it is not clear what vehicle type it will be based around,” said Sae-Hoon Kim, Hyundai-Kia’s head of hydrogen fuel cell research...
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