“The system is quite unique to us,” explained Mike Cutts, business line director at Iveco. “We’ve developed it in-house. Our ladder-frame chassis is perfectly designed for that modularity – not just for [battery] electric but also for adaptation to hydrogen in the future.”

Iveco and Hyundai have partnered on hydrogen and other future projects, with Hyundai’s fuel cell tech already having been showcased in Iveco van and bus concepts – although neither firm has categorically suggested Iveco’s modular battery tech could make it into H