Hyundai delays hybrid, fuel cell?
Filed under: Hybrid, Hydrogen, Hyundai
Hyundai may be delaying the release of their hybrid and fuel cells vehicles. An unnamed Hyundai official told Reuters that Hyundai will mass-produce a Hybrid Elantra through its Kia unit in 2010 and mass produce a fuel cell vehicle starting in 2012 (2015 at the latest). Recently, we reported Hyundai would produce hybrids in 2008, and 2009 and have fuel cell volume sales by 2010 and begin mass sales in 2015. Volume, mass production, and release dates are squishy numbers (companies often say 2007-2008 release for example) so technically, there might not actually be a delay. The new, slightly-further-out release targets for the Hyundai hybrids and fuel cells have us little worried though.
[Source: Reuters]
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9-28-2007 @ 12:34PM
Jim Horwitz said...
Regardless of delay or not, there as yet no appreciable hydrogen fueling infrastructure, particularly in Korea as yet, so 2008 made no sense to bein with. If gov't programs stay on course for California, Vancouver (oriented around Whistler Olympics, and Japan, FCVs could be supported for commuter use just as bus trials are presently. And even with 'mass production', a reasonable price point for a standard car probably can't be reached until 2012-2015 at the earliest.
But note that Hyundai-Kia has made a long-term decision to skip hbrid development and jump directly to fuel cell vehicles. Far-sighted, I say.
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