The new INEOS Grenadier will bet on the hydrogen fuel cell. INEOS Automotive has commissioned all the machinery to become a benchmark in the hydrogen vehicle market. The company is in the process of developing a Grenadier based on Hyundai’s hydrogen fuel cell technology.
At the end of the turbulent year 2020 marked by the coronavirus pandemic, it was confirmed that Hyundai and INEOS will promote hydrogen as a sustainable mobility solution against battery electric vehicles. A very important alliance for the manufacturer that is about to put its highly anticipated SUV on the market. The new INEOS Grenadier. Now, the company has given new details of the roadmap that has been put in place.
INEOS committed to spearheading the hydrogen revolution. A clean energy source that can be used as a raw material for industry and also as an energy source for transportation and the home. Green hydrogen is already considered key in the automotive industry’s immediate future in the world’s major automotive markets.
INEOS works on a Grenadier with a hydrogen fuel cell
The largest European electrolysis operator is INEOS. Critical technology that uses renewable energy to produce hydrogen for power generation, transportation, and industry. INEOS currently produces and uses 400,000 tons of low-carbon hydrogen per year. Or what is the same, the equivalent of the replacement of 2,000 million liters of diesel.
The company has announced its willingness to invest 2 billion euros in the production of green hydrogen throughout Europe. INEOS Automotive’s dedicated hydrogen division also supports hydrogen fuel cells as a clean propulsion solution for future versions of its new 4×4. That is, the possibility of seeing in the market a INEOS Grenadier FCEV powered by hydrogen is very real.
The process of developing a prototype of the INEOS Grenadier powered by Hyundai’s hydrogen fuel cell technology is underway. Specifically, this prototype will share technology with the Hyundai Nexo, the popular hydrogen SUV that we can currently find in dealerships. Its trial period is scheduled to start in late 2022.
Saehoon Ki himself, Hyundai’s Senior Vice President and Head of the Fuel Cell Center, said late last year that he expects serial production of the fuel cell Grenadier to materialize.