Watermelon car: Hyunai Nexo is a cleaner for everyone – Advisor

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Even in 2018, the hydrogen car will remain an alternative for pioneers, who, however, must accept far fewer compromises than battery-powered electric conductors. Photo: – / Werk

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Ten years ago, Mercedes had the subject of hydrogen (H
at the top of the agenda. A world tour with three clbad B fuel cells should be the starting signal for a new era of driving: Daimler can not buy a single vehicle H ₂ at Daimler until today. 39 and when he announced the GLC F-Cell announced there is, is open. Meanwhile, another automaker crosses the fast lane: in August, Hyundai brings the Nexo to the second generation of its ix35 F-Cell called hydrogen SUV on the road – for 69,000 euros.

This sum, already 180 customers for The Nexo on the table are for an average 4×4 of 4.67 meters long a money bar. In a manageable market environment, Koreans are in top shape: the mentioned Benz is expected to cost around 100,000 euros, and the only serious competitor, the Toyota Mirai, is also just under 10,000 euros more expensive than the Hyundai. a spaceship-type sedan that hits the nerve of the time much less than the Hyundai Hochbeiner, which differs primarily by the LED stripe in the grille and the striking taillights of its brand brothers. Eye-catcher: retractable door handles that serve aerodynamic, as well as cast D-pillars or under the rear spoiler hidden wipers on the rear window. Partly made of recyclable corn, soy and cane materials Sugar, neat interior Nexo intervenes two worlds: The group of instruments arrived in the future, works completely digitally and even shows a camera view of the blind spot while turning. The center console under the touch screen navigation infotainment of 12.3 inches, on the other hand, looks like something from another era; as if Hyundai had put all the cheap plastic switches and buttons that had been banned from cars elsewhere in the Nexo.

It is not possible to go on vacation in the south

The control unit makes a lot of space between the driver and the pbadenger. The rear pbadengers have it better, they travel on the folding rear seat and do not realize that they are sitting on the three built in front and behind the hydrogen tanks of the axle. . The limit of startup space barely: With 461 to 1466 liters go a little less than 100 liters less pure than in Audi Q5 and Co., but enough for the holidays.

It is rather the network of incomplete service stations in the way: Currently there is Germany will have 40 public distributors of hydrogen, 80 by the end of the year . This would make the trip through the Republic easily feasible, after all, the Nexo comes with a 6.33-kilogram fuel tank at NEDC measured up to 750 kilometers wide; the more practical WLTP procedure certifies Koreans absolutely adapted to a daily use of 666 kilometers.

If you want to go abroad, you should rather be a fan of Scandinavia: in Denmark, Sweden and Norway there are individual refueling stations, beyond the Paris-Bolzano line -Graz is _{-Ebbe. The costs are about ten euros per 100 kilometers}

Thus, the hydrogen car remains in 2018 an alternative for pioneers, but must take far less compromise in purchases than battery electric cars. If you have a service station H ₂ in your city or along its suburban roads, you can easily run without spending several hours at the charging station. It only takes five minutes for the carbon dioxide bottles to be full again.

However, one drives more expensive than with the electricity of the catch: about 60 euros are due for a tank, or nearly ten euros per 100 kilometers. So, the Nexo is at the level of gasoline, but it is much cleaner.

In the conversion of hydrogen into electricity, neither CO ₂ nor nitrogen oxides or soot particles – only water vapor. That the environmental balance is really pure, if hydrogen is gained from renewable energy and unlike today's natural gas, it is something else.

At 179 km / h, Koreans quietly quiet

Otherwise, Nexo readers like all Stromer. No wonder the technology is identical with the exception of the embedded energy generation using platinum membranes in the 95 kW fuel cell: Electricity produces an electric motor up to 120 kW / 163 hp, which powers the front wheels.

The excess energy is stored intermediately in a battery of 1.56 kWh with the power generated during braking. With a maximum of 395 Newton meters, the Nexo is shredded, even in the intermediate sprints, it pbades quickly. At speed 100, the Hyundai sprints in less than ten seconds, the maximum of Korean rolls to 179 km / h – while quietly silent.

The steering works much more precisely than in many other Hyundai – Hochbeiner, and thanks to the battery The low center of gravity of the tanks also allows for more abrupt directional changes without the SUV 's noticeable. ; bogged down. The Nexo sets new standards in support systems: Koreans do not just drive and brake alone and oversee the environment. It can even be turned on and off from the outside by remote control – which is actually much more futuristic than hydrogen propulsion

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