Defender Land Rover Coches hidrógeno SUV
The Land Rover Defender with hydrogen fuel cell will be seen at the end of 2021
Victor Alós Yus @sepelaci
15 June 2021
2 min. 
The work carried out by Project Zeus of Jaguar Land Rover will bear fruit: a prototype of the Land Rover Defender with hydrogen fuel cell.
Vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology are still scarce. This clean drivetrain system still does not have the full confidence of most users. But little by little progress seems to be being made in the development of the technology, and it is expected to become quite common within a few years. It is estimated that by 2030 there will be around 10 million vehicles on the road using hydrogen fuel cells.
Jaguar Land Rover is working on developing a powertrain based on this technology, and it will be the Land Rover Defender that benefits from it. The idea is to keep moving forward to eliminate all polluting engines by 2036 and achieve carbon neutrality in all of its operations, following the Reimagine strategy.
More efficient than the electric car
We already know that vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells have a greater range than electric ones. Electricity is generated thanks to the chemical reactions that take place with hydrogen, which produce only water vapour as a residue. These vehicles have more advantages than battery cars, and it is a system that proves far more efficient for larger vehicles. The Land Rover Defender fits this description, and that is why it has been chosen to start using it.
The functional prototype is expected to be ready at the end of 2021, so it could begin to be tested in real conditions very soon. The team in charge of driving this project forward is Project Zeus, the advanced engineering department of Jaguar Land Rover that is researching hydrogen fuel cells. Its research is aimed at obtaining the full performance of this type of mobility, especially with regard to range and off-road capability.
Project Zeus of Jaguar Land Rover involves R&D collaborators such as Delta Motorsport, AVL, Marelli Automotive Systems and the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), who contribute to researching, developing and designing this prototype.
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