- Hyundai Motor Group to current a future metropolis the place know-how is harmoniously linked in three core elements of town: House, Mobility and Vitality
- The Group to showcase human-centered sensible metropolis options below the imaginative and prescient ‘Inspiring Human Progress,’ with zones centered on ‘Transportation,’ ‘Logistics and Robotics’ and ‘Vitality and Infrastructure’
- Good metropolis options on show to incorporate the DICE private mobility platform, S-A2 next-generation airframe, SPACE-Mobility system, Metropolis Pod and way more
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) introduced that it’s going to take part for the primary time within the World Good Metropolis Expo 2024 (WSCE). The expo shall be held from September 3–5 at KINTEX in Korea, showcasing human-centered sensible metropolis options.
WSCE is a world expo the place the most recent applied sciences, insurance policies and options for sensible cities are shared and mentioned. It has been held eight instances since its inception in 2017 below the sponsorship of the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Ministry of Science and ICT.
Final 12 months, a complete of 320 firms from 70 international locations participated, introducing varied options for future cities, comparable to sensible infrastructure and power effectivity. This 12 months, varied experiences and exhibitions shall be held below the slogan ‘Higher Life is Right here.’
At this 12 months’s WSCE, the Group is ready to check a future metropolis the place know-how seamlessly integrates town’s three core components: House, Mobility and Vitality.
“Our dedication extends past mobility; we try to innovate constantly to reinforce life high quality throughout varied elements of our cities,” stated Heung-Soo Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of the World Technique Workplace (GSO) at Hyundai Motor Group. “We’ll proceed to leverage our Group-wide capabilities to appreciate sustainable sensible cities that encourage human progress below the important thing areas: area, mobility, and power.”
The Group has ready a 900-square-meter exhibition corridor the place guests can get a glimpse of its sensible metropolis imaginative and prescient, ‘Inspiring Human Progress.’ The exhibition corridor will even be divided into three themes: ‘Transportation,’ ‘Logistics and Robotics’ and ‘Vitality and Infrastructure.’
Within the ‘Transportation’ zone, the DICE (Digital Curated Expertise) private mobility platform, the S-A2 next-generation airframe, the SPACE-Mobility public system, the demand-responsive Shucle service, and others are on show.
DICE is a private mobility platform that gives custom-made providers by way of software program know-how optimized for people by synthetic intelligence (AI). It permits for a extra immersive journey expertise by way of a three-sided show.
Unveiled at CES 2024, the S-A2 next-generation airframe is a sophisticated air mobility (AAM) gadget able to vertical takeoff and touchdown. Group subsidiary Supernal is creating the S-A2 airframe to fly at a cruising pace of 200 km/h at an altitude of 400-500 meters within the metropolis. The corporate goals to commercialize S-A2 in 2028.
The SPACE-Mobility public system permits anybody, together with these with transportation difficulties, to take pleasure in unrestricted motion. It supplies optimized area and customised seats based on person situations and helps snug boarding and alighting for wheelchairs, micro-mobility units, pets, and so on., by way of floor management features.
Within the ‘Logistics and Robotics’ zone, the Metropolis Pod logistics mobility gadget, Parking Robotic and Simple Swap are on show.
Metropolis Pod is an unmanned, giant logistics mobility gadget that surpasses the bounds of present programs primarily based on software program know-how. It’s geared up with an automated logistics classification system that strikes organically and actively in any respect levels. It makes use of hydrogen power know-how and is predicted for use diversely in day by day life and industrial websites, together with logistics, public transportation, industrial uncooked supplies and waste transportation, and hydrogen power transportation.
Simple Swap is a know-how that permits customers to interchange life modules based on the patron’s type. Customers can detach the enterprise module from the fastened platform, referred to as the motive force module, by way of the boarding and alighting gadget and mix it with one other module appropriate for the aim. This permits one automobile for use as an workplace, luxurious limousine, camper, and so on.
The Parking Robotic, developed by Hyundai WIA, is a pair of skinny, broad robots that go below the automobile, raise the wheels, and transfer them. The robotic’s thickness is designed to be 110 mm in order that it may be utilized to any automobile. It has been developed to maneuver in any path — entrance, again, left and proper — in order that it might transfer autos even in slender areas the place parking is troublesome.
The park exhibit, within the ‘Vitality and Infrastructure’ zone on the heart of the sales space, embodies the Group’s imaginative and prescient for a sensible metropolis: a spot the place folks can stroll amidst plentiful greenery, reflecting the best of a metropolis residing in concord with nature. Via a construction within the type of a telescope, guests can not directly expertise the design of an underground area centered on features geared up with mobility, logistics and power infrastructure.
Via the infographic stand put in on the outskirts of the park, the picture of a sustainable future metropolis that considers not solely folks and nature, but additionally future generations are conveyed. That is primarily based on the hydrogen worth chain from the manufacturing, motion, and storage to utilization.
Subsequent, the Group plans to construct a sensible metropolis platform that seamlessly connects mobility options and infrastructure. The core of a sensible metropolis is to attach all infrastructure and providers within the metropolis into one to handle them effectively and supply a greater way of life. In keeping with the Group’s strategic path of remodeling into software-oriented mobility, it should construct an city ecosystem the place information might be interconnected and operated to create a extra handy and safer city surroundings.
The Group will even launch a manifesto movie to articulate the core values, philosophy, and goal of its sensible metropolis in a relatable method. This movie focuses on extra than simply the Group’s revolutionary know-how; it brings to life the sensible metropolis values that heart on humanity and the on a regular basis lives of individuals. Utilizing cinematic strategies, the movie conveys the sensible metropolis philosophy the place folks, not know-how, are the principle characters. It avoids the frequent sci-fi really feel related to future depictions and as an alternative adopts a heat tone to painting a future that’s fascinating for folks.
