Hyundai Mobis invests 1.09 billion US dollars in further fuel cell factories

Hyundai Mobis is investing the sum of 1.09 billion US dollars in further production facilities in Incheon and Ulsan for the manufacture of fuel cells. On 7 October 2021, Hyundai Mobis broke ground for a new factory in the High-Tech Industrial Complex of Cheongna International City in Incheon. The two plants in Incheon and Ulsan are expected to produce 100,000 fuel cells annually. Construction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2022. Series production of fuel cells is scheduled to start in the second half of 2023. The plant in Incheon is responsible for the production of the actual fuel cells and sends them to the plant in Ulsan, where the assembly of the modules takes place. Components and production parts for such fuel cells require KC certification to a large extent in order to be approved on the Korean market and to be imported into Korea.

Once the two new plants are completed, Hyundai Mobis will have a total of three fuel cell production facilities in South Korea. The company began the world’s first integrated fuel cell production at its Chungju, South Korea facility in 2018. Currently, the capacity of the plant there is 23,000 fuel cell modules annually. Once the Incheon and Ulsan sites come on stream, Hyundai Mobis’ annual capacity will grow to 123,000 modules. This would make Hyundai Mobis the world’s largest producer of fuel cells in terms of production capacity.

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Julian Busch

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