From hydrogen production to ecosystem construction... Hyundai Motor Group unveils integrated solution

Hyundai Motor Group presented its hydrogen technology vision encompassing everything from hydrogen production infrastructure to mobility and ecosystem.

Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 4th that it will participate in the hydrogen industry expo 'World Hydrogen Expo 2026' (WHE 2026), which will be held at the 2nd exhibition hall of KINTEX in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do until the 6th.

Hyundai Motor Group set up a 720m² exhibition hall and introduced key technologies under the themes of production infrastructure, passenger/commercial/railway mobility, and ecosystem solutions.

In the production field, the company unveiled for the first time a 5-megawatt (MW) electrolyzer stack module (ESM) configuration method that integrates 12 polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolysis stacks. PEM water electrolysis is a technology that produces clean hydrogen by electrolyzing water.

One ESM unit can produce about 700 tons (t) of hydrogen per year, and it is also possible to expand it to a hundreds MW water electrolysis plant by placing multiple modules in parallel.

Hyundai Motor Group operates a 1MW container-type demonstration facility in Gwangju and is pursuing additional demonstration projects in Boryeong, Buan, and Jeju.

In the mobility field, hydrogen mobility solutions ranging from commercial vehicles and railways, including the 2027 Nexo, were introduced.

The Nexo, a model dedicated to hydrogen electric vehicles, has been sold in more than 50,000 units worldwide, recording a cumulative mileage of about 2.5 billion km, and about 4,000 hydrogen electric trucks and buses have been distributed, running a cumulative distance of 440 million km.

In the commercial sector, a fuel cell system with increased durability tailored to the long-distance driving environment was unveiled for the first time. The Elec City hydrogen-electric low-floor metropolitan bus, which is being developed to improve the transportation convenience of wheelchair users and other transportation vulnerable people, was also introduced.

'Blue Link Uptime Care', an integrated control system that reduces downtime of hydrogen commercial vehicles by analyzing operation data, was also exhibited.

In addition, Hyundai Motor Group implemented a diorama model of a future industrial city where renewable energy, hydrogen, AI data centers, robotics, and urban infrastructure are connected, focusing on the Saemangeum Artificial Intelligence (AI) Valley concept.

Saemangeum AI Valley is a large-scale project worth 9 trillion won that builds a self-reliant, circular future industrial ecosystem by organically combining an AI data center, robot manufacturing cluster, solar power generation, water electrolysis plant, and AI hydrogen city.

On this day, Hyundai Motor Group Vice Chairman Jang Jae-hoon visited the WHE 2026 event venue, toured the group's exhibition hall and visited the booths of major participating companies.

A Hyundai Motor Group official said, "We will introduce the group's integrated hydrogen solutions, from hydrogen production to mobility, and use in urban and industrial fields, and expand opportunities for cooperation with customers and partners. We will discover various applications based on our hydrogen production capabilities and provide optimized solutions across the entire value chain to connect them to practical business."