Air Products sells new hydrogen-fueling station to Hyundai Australia

Air Products is selling a hydrogen-fueling station to Hyundai Motor Company Australia (HMCA), the company announced today. 

The fueling station will initially be used to fuel a Hyundai ix35 hydrogen-powered zero-emission fuel cell electric vehicle, the first hydrogen-powered car to be imported into Australia. 

The hydrogen fueling station, which will be located at HMCA's offices in New South Wales just outside of Sydney, is currently undergoing commissioning and is scheduled to begin vehicle fueling this week to demonstrate the benefits of hydrogen-based, zero-emission fuel cell electric vehicle technology in Australia.

"Since we work with Hyundai at other locations around the world by providing hydrogen mobile fuelers in the US and are leasing a Hyundai FCEV Tucson in Europe, we are thrilled to be working with Hyundai in Australia so they can fuel and showcase their vehicle and its benefits first-hand," said Chris Kretz, business development manager for hydrogen energy systems at Air Products. 

"We continue to develop our relationships with Hyundai and other vehicle manufacturers to highlight the benefits of hydrogen as a clean fuel, and the benefits of fuel cell electric drive trains as a zero emission automotive propulsion system at locations around the world," he added.

Air Products' SmartFuel hydrogen fueling stations are stand-alone compression, storage, and dispensing units that have been placed into operation in over 21 countries as a standard product offering.

Air Products is working closely with Coregas, an Australian-owned industrial, medical, and specialty gas company, as the local supplier of hydrogen to offer a complete fueling solution.

Overall, use of the company's fueling technology is increasing and is over 1,000,000 hydrogen fills per year. Air Products adds that it has been involved in over 180 hydrogen fueling projects worldwide. Cars, trucks, vans, buses, scooters, forklifts, locomotives, planes, cell towers, material handling equipment, and even submarines have all been fueled with Air Products technologies.