Hyundai delivers first hydrogen fuel cell iX35 in Copenhagen

It's a European kind of debut for the hydrogen-powered Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell (which will be known as the Tuscon Fuel Cell when it arrives in the US). Hyundai showed off the first production ix35 in Geneva earlier this year and this week delivered 15 of the H2 SUVs to the City of Copehagen. The avant garde vehicles will be used in the city's municipal fleet as part of the city's "carbon-neutral" ambitions. The timing was good, since Copenhagen opened the first hydrogen refueling station in Denmark at the same time. That station, called H2Station CAR-100, was built in just 48 hours, as you can see in the video below.

Hyundai has been teasing the ix35 at various business and political events throughout Europe this year, and started developing hydrogen fuel cell technology back in 1998. The new ix35s are an important step, since they represent the early wave of the 1,000 ix35 Fuel Cells that Hyundai wants to build by 2015.

Hyundai says the ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles are the "first hydrogen-powered vehicles manufactured on a production line to be introduced in Europe,"