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In some ways hydrogen makes more sense than electric if you have something like hydro or nuclear power to make the needed hydrogen:

Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun, left, shakes hands with Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda during the Hyundai N x Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival at the Everland Speedway in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday. Courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group

Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun and Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda met in public for the first time, Sunday, implying that the rival carmakers may work together to strengthen their global alliance for hydrogen mobility.

Their meeting took place during the Hyundai N x Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival, co-hosted by the two carmakers at the Everland Speedway in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.

Beginning with Toyoda’s performance driving of a car carrying Chung, the festival kicked off to showcase high-performance cars of both companies and to attract more people to enjoy motorsports. Toyoda is a master driver who races for his company’s Gazoo Racing Team under the name “Morizo.”

Hyundai Motor also invited Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Hankook & Company Chairman Cho Hyun-bum to the event.

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As more FCEV’s hit the road in Korea, more hydrogen production facilities will have to be built that will hopefully reduce the vulnerability from one plant having a maintenance issue:

The recent shortage of hydrogen for vehicles in Korea has prompted a controversy about the country’s readiness to popularize hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), cars that run on electricity genreated by using oxygen from the air and compressed hydrogen, according to industry officials, Sunday.

Since a malfunction last week at hydrogen production facilities at Hyundai Steel’s Dangjin factory in South Chungcheong Province, charging stations in interior parts of Korea have faced difficulties securing hydrogen. As a result, FCEV drivers have had to line up for several hours to fuel their cars.

Earlier this month, passenger cars and buses using hydrogen had engine troubles after fueling from a charging station in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, because of impurities in the station’s hydrogen supply. In August last year, an oil price hike reduced hydrogen production, forcing a maximum on hydrogen purchases of 1 kilogram per driver at each station.

The series of problems caused skepticism about switching from diesel-powered buses and trucks to hydrogen-powered vehicles, as well as over Hyundai Motor’s plan to launch the next version of the NEXO, its hydrogen passenger car.

“The government’s rapidly changing roadmap for the hydrogen economy has caused confusion, delaying the private sector’s investments,” Korea Energy Economics Institute research fellow Kim Jae-kyung said in a recent forum.

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A hydrogen fuel cell concept vehicle is displayed at the Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (BEXCO) at the Busan International Motor Show in the southeastern port city of Busan on June 7, 2018. (Yonhap)