Hyundai: Twelve ix35 Fuel Cells for the Coop fleet
The fall of 2016 will go down as a milestone in Swiss mobility history: At the beginning of November, Coop opened Switzerland's first public hydrogen filling station. And at the same time, Hyundai was able to hand over twelve ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles with this clean and CO2-neutral drive system to the company. At the first public Coop Pronto filling station for hydrogen in Hunzenschwil, [...]
At the first public Coop Pronto filling station for hydrogen in Hunzenschwil, a vehicle can be filled up in around three minutes. For the foreseeable future, this station will mainly feature Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cells. This is no coincidence; after all, Hyundai is the first car manufacturer in the world to launch the ix35 Fuel Cell, a fully everyday hydrogen model with a 600-kilometer range, in series production since the beginning of 2013. As the operator of Switzerland's first public hydrogen filling station, it made sense for Coop to upgrade its vehicle fleet with suitably powered models as part of the company's sustainability vision. And so Coop ordered twelve Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cells for its new distribution center in nearby Schafisheim. Beat Hirschi from Coop's transport department: "Our company is doing everything it can to meet its targets of being CO2 neutral by 2023, and the Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell makes an important contribution to this."
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