Insurance Institute for Highways Safety gives top marks to NEXO in its first test of a hydrogen fuel cell SUV. Hyundai engineers spell out how they designed the NEXO for safe crashes.
Safety is critical for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles because a ruptured tank could lead to a powerful explosion. Hyudai's NEXO fuel-cell SUV recently received Top Safety Pick+ ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the organization's top marks, and engineers for the automaker explain how technologies such as hot-stamped B-pillars and carbon-fiber shielding in hydrogen tanks led to the safe crash performance.Latest from EV Design & Manufacturing
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