This is an environmentally friendly source of energy
Hyundai said hydrogen will play «a critical role in Hyundai's sustainability roadmap as it is a clean energy source». The company envisions that hydrogen will power not only trucks, buses and cars, but also airplanes, ships, power generators and trains.
The company also announced that it is developing «possibility of producing megawatt-scale polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen, which is expected to be commercialized within the next few years».
When talking about hydrogen production, Hyundai focuses on two approaches known as «waste to hydrogen» and «recycling plastic into hydrogen». The first involves fermenting organic waste such as food and livestock manure to produce biogas, which is then processed to capture carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen.
The process of turning plastic into hydrogen is completely different: waste plastic that cannot be recycled is melted, gasified, and then converted into hydrogen by removing unnecessary elements.