Hyundai Motor Company has expanded its partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE) in order to support the DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Programme.

The extended partnership will see the two parties assess the current status of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies’ as well as address the challenges.

Hyundai has said that it aims to increase technical collaboration to better understand challenges and to collect and publish independently validated data from demonstrating fuel cell technologies and hydrogen infrastructure.

As part of the extended collaboration, Hyundai will provide five Hyundai NEXO fuel cell vehicles to the DOE  and will also support the installation of a SimpleFuel hydrogen unit from PDC Machines in Washington D.C. this fall.