{"id":137754,"date":"2022-04-06T05:28:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T10:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/hyundai-outlines-its-hydrogen-aviation-plans-including-regional-estols"},"modified":"2022-04-06T05:28:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T10:28:33","slug":"hyundai-outlines-its-hydrogen-aviation-plans-including-regional-estols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/hyundai-outlines-its-hydrogen-aviation-plans-including-regional-estols","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai outlines its hydrogen aviation plans, including regional eSTOLs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And they could enter service by 2030.The automotive world is transforming to meet the needs of the future.<\/p>\n

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Hyundai has already made it very clear that it\u2019s making a serious play at next-gen electric aviation, establishing its own eVTOL subsidiary Supernal<\/a> late last year and promising to flex its automotive-grade manufacturing muscle to get air taxis built in bulk. Now, the company has made a presentation at the Vertical Flight Society\u2019s H2 Aero workshop to confirm that it\u2019s also bringing its hydrogen expertise into the aviation world.<\/p>\n

Hyundai\/Kia and Toyota, of course, have been the two main hydrogen fuel cell stalwarts in the automotive industry. Batteries make more sense for most passenger car applications globally, but Japan and Korea are committed to building a \u201chydrogen economy\u201d powering much more than personal transport, so these companies in particular have persisted with building and selling relatively small numbers of fuel cell-electric cars like the Nexo<\/a> and Mirai<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That means they\u2019ve got full hydrogen powertrains designed, manufactured in the tens of thousands of units, and fully crash tested to meet automotive safety certification standards in multiple countries \u2013 an excellent head start, you might say, if you\u2019re interested in rolling that expertise out into the aviation market. And that\u2019s definitely an avenue Hyundai is looking to work through Supernal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And they could enter service by 2030.The automotive world is transforming to meet the needs of the future. Hyundai has already made it very clear that it\u2019s making a serious play at next-gen electric aviation, establishing its own eVTOL subsidiary Supernal late last year and promising to flex its automotive-grade manufacturing muscle to get air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}