▲ Lim Tae-won, Vice President of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Business Division at Hyundai Motor Group (left), Patrick Hermanspann, CEO of FAUN Group (right) (Photo provided by Hyundai Motor Group)


First mass production project order since fuel cell system sales launch...expectation for acceleration of system business
"Will serve as a starting point for HTWO fuel cell system business expansion to reduce fossil fuel dependency"

Hyundai Motor Group will supply hydrogen fuel cell systems on a large scale to a European eco-friendly truck manufacturer.

HTWO, Hyundai Motor Group's hydrogen business brand based on fuel cell systems, announced on the 12th that it has concluded a hydrogen fuel cell supply contract for commercial vehicle mass production with Enginius, a subsidiary of Germany's FAUN Group.

This marks the first time Hyundai Motor Group is supplying fuel cell systems for a third party's large-scale mass production project.

Hyundai Motor Group will supply approximately 1,100 units of hydrogen fuel cell systems to Enginius over a three-year period.

The fuel cell system being supplied in this project is the same product as the 90kW-class fuel cell system of the Nexo, whose technology has been verified through sales exceeding 30,000 units accumulated globally.

Enginius, which concluded the contract with Hyundai Motor Group, is a subsidiary of FAUN Group, which dominates the European street cleaning vehicle market, and manufactures eco-friendly trucks.

Enginius plans to mass-produce FAUN Group's street cleaning truck BLUEPOWER and medium-duty cargo truck CITYPOWER based on Hyundai Motor Group's hydrogen fuel cell system.

FAUN Group's BLUEPOWER is a representative hydrogen truck for waste collection in Europe, and currently approximately 60 vehicles are in operation. From the second half of 2023, mass production will commence equipped with Hyundai Motor Group's fuel cell system.

CITYPOWER is an urban medium-duty cargo truck newly launched by FAUN Group, and a test vehicle equipped with Hyundai Motor Group's hydrogen fuel cell was unveiled at the German Commercial Vehicle Expo (IAA Transportation) in September.

CITYPOWER will undergo pilot operation in 2024 and is expected to be available in European cities from as early as 2025.

Lim Tae-won, Vice President of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Business Division at Hyundai Motor Group, stated, "Through this collaboration with FAUN Group, HTWO has taken one step closer to the goal of reducing humanity's dependency on fossil fuels," and added, "As this is the first case of supplying fuel cell systems in large quantities, it will serve as a starting point for Hyundai Motor Group's fuel cell system business expansion."

Patrick Hermanspann, CEO of FAUN Group, stated, "We are pleased to be able to cooperate with Hyundai Motor Group, which possesses high-level technological capabilities in the fuel cell sector." Torsten Baumeister, head of the truck division at Enginius, remarked, "By combining the expertise of both companies, we will provide greater value to customers while serving as an impetus to accelerate the expansion of eco-friendly commercial vehicles for carbon neutrality."