Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos Grenadier SUV will be powered by Hydrogen.  The British billionaire has signed a deal with Korean giant Hyundai to use its fuel cell technology in his green 4X4.

Ineos outlined its plans to produce a hydrogen-powered SUV a year ago, knowing that heavy batteries were not the answer for greener large 4X4 models.

So now Ineos has signed a deal with Hyundai to develop its hydrogen technology.

Ratcliffe’s Ineos business produces 300,000 tons of hydrogen a year, and Hyundai already have a hydrogen fuel cell car on sale – the Nexo SUV model – so the alliance makes a lot of sense.

The Grenadier was conceived by Ratcliffe, in the Grenadier Pub in London’s Belgravia, to fill a ‘gap in the market’  that has been abandoned, he says, by Land Rover and its new Defender SUV.