[청년투데이=김시온 기자] Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Eui-sun Chung and SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won joined hands over the hydrogen business.
Chairman Eui-sun Eui-sun met with Chairman Tae-won Choi at SK Incheon Petrochemical on the 2nd and announced that he would take another step in the hydrogen industry.
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Eui-sun Eui-sun said at a meeting, “Hydrogen can be used not only as an energy source, but also as an energy storage medium, so it is expected to play the role of’energy currency’ in the carbon-neutral era. “We will build a healthy hydrogen ecosystem where production, distribution, and utilization are organically carried out, and we will advance the realization of a hydrogen society through successful energy conversion.”
At the meeting, the two companies decided to promote multilateral cooperation in hydrogen-related business fields, such as ▲ supplying 1,500 hydrogen electric vehicles ▲ building hydrogen and ultra-high-speed electric vehicle charging infrastructure ▲ promoting the establishment of the Korean version of the K-Hydrogen Council. After the meeting, Hyundai Motor Group and SK Group signed a business agreement with Incheon Metropolitan City and Incheon Seo-gu Office to establish the foundation for Incheon Metropolitan City’s hydrogen business.
First of all, Hyundai Motor Group and SK Group plan to explore various business models to expand the supply of hydrogen electric vehicles.
More than 1,500 vehicles operated at SK Group’s business sites will be gradually converted to hydrogen electric vehicles produced by Hyundai Motor Company, and Hyundai Motor Group will provide hydrogen cargo trucks in 2022 and hydrogen tractors in 2024, and SK Group will utilize them.
In addition, by the end of this year, one hydrogen charging station for commercial vehicles will be installed at each truck house in SK, which is a logistics service base in Incheon and Ulsan, and concrete cooperation plans to install hydrogen charging stations at SK gas stations nationwide will continue to be discussed.
Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor Group has established hydrogen-related business cooperation with major domestic groups such as POSCO even before the business agreement with SK Group.
A business official said, “It seems that there has been a consensus that hydrogen is the key to achieving carbon neutrality within the Hyundai Motor Group.” It seems that cooperation has been achieved.”
Prior to such cooperation, Hyundai Motor Group signed a partnership agreement with Audi for fuel cell technology related to hydrogen electric vehicles in 2018, and in 2019, jointly shared key technologies for hydrogen fuel cells through a business agreement with Impact Coatings, a company specializing in precision coatings in Sweden. I have developed it.
In addition, Swiss GRZ Technologies is promoting the commercialization of technology development related to hydrogen charging stations. It was also exported to’.
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