Seoul
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, said Thursday it aims to export 64,000 hydrogen-powered trucks by 2030 amid growing demand for environment-friendly vehicles.
Hyundai Motor is at an initial state of selling its hydrogen fuel-cell commercial vehicles in global markets.
In July, the company shipped 10 XCIENT Fuel Cell hydrogen trucks to Switzerland in the country’s first exports of hydrogen commercial vehicles. Hyundai plans to deliver 40 additional XCIENTs to the European country by December as part of its long-term contract to export a total of 1,600 XCIENTs to the country by 2025.
To achieve the export target, Hyundai said it will beef up production capacity to churn out up to 2,000 hydrogen commercial vehicles a year by 2021.—APP
