SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s leading automakers, have partnered with a U.S. materials science company to cooperate in developing a key material used in hydrogen fuel cells, the companies said Friday. The South Korean companies signed an agreement with the Newark, Delaware-based W.L. Gore & Associates [...]
GWANGJU, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean drone company has succeeded in remotely controlling a drone thousands of kilometers away. Local drone manufacturer Hogreen Air on Thursday succeeded in remotely controlling two 5G hydrogen fuel cell drones in at a drone park in the southern city of Gwangju from a 9,042-kilometer distance in Silicon Valley. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. have teamed up with fuel cell maker Doosan Fuel Cell Co. to establish a hydrogen fuel cell power system as well as to launch a full-scale demonstration project. Companies on Thursday held a completion ceremony for the hydrogen fuel cell distributed power [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fuel cell maker Doosan Fuel Cell Co. said Monday it has exported its hydrogen fuel cells to China for the first time as a local fuel cell maker. Under the deal with ZKRG Smart Energy Technology Co., Doosan Fuel Cell will install four 440 kilowatt hydrogen fuel [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Friday it will invest 1.32 trillion won (US$1.1 billion) in two local hydrogen fuel-cell plants by 2025. Hyundai Mobis plans to build a hydrogen fuel-cell stack plant in Incheon, just west of Seoul, and a hydrogen fuel-cell systems assembly [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co. (HE) said Thursday that it has signed a preliminary deal with Hyundai Motor Co. to develop hydrogen fuel cell packages for electricity generation. The hydrogen fuel cell packages will be developed based on Hyundai Motor’s fuel cell for electric vehicles, HE said in [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. is taking steps to commercialize a hydrogen fuel cell system for ship use. The carmaker on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Hyundai Global Service, Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co.’s ship repairing unit, and the Korean Register of Shipping (KR), a ship quality assurance [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group’s hydrogen fuel cell system HTWO is set to make a foray into the motorsports market. The world’s fifth-largest automotive group said that it will supply a hydrogen fuel cell power generation system to the Electric Touring Car Racing (ETCR) series, with the world’s first touring race [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Engineering & Construction Co., a leading South Korean builder, has launched a demonstration project for carbon emission-free hydrogen fuel cell power generation. The company announced that it will establish a pure hydrogen solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) power generation facility in collaboration with its affiliate SK Advanced Co., [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it plans to expand subsidies provided for electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel-cell automobiles this year in line with the country’s green energy drive. Under the plan, South Korea will allocate 1 trillion won (US$930 billion) to promote sales of electric cars, which marks a 25 [...]