- Hyundai Motor Group to current a future metropolis the place know-how is harmoniously related in three core facets of the town: Area, Mobility and Vitality
- The Group to showcase human-centered good 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 rather 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 might be held from September 3–5 at KINTEX in Korea, showcasing human-centered good metropolis options.
WSCE is a world expo the place the newest applied sciences, insurance policies and options for good cities are shared and mentioned. It has been held eight occasions 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 numerous options for future cities, equivalent to good infrastructure and power effectivity. This 12 months, numerous experiences and exhibitions might be held below the slogan ‘Higher Life is Right here.’
At this 12 months’s WSCE, the Group is ready to examine a future metropolis the place know-how seamlessly integrates the town’s three core parts: Area, Mobility and Vitality.
“Our dedication extends past mobility; we attempt to innovate repeatedly to boost life high quality throughout numerous facets of our cities,” stated Heung-Soo Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of the World Technique Workplace (GSO) at Hyundai Motor Group. “We are going to proceed to leverage our Group-wide capabilities to understand sustainable good 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 good 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 personalized 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) machine able to vertical takeoff and touchdown. Group subsidiary Supernal is growing 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 gives optimized area and customised seats based on person circumstances and helps comfy boarding and alighting for wheelchairs, micro-mobility gadgets, pets, and many others., by way of floor management features.
Within the ‘Logistics and Robotics’ zone, the Metropolis Pod logistics mobility machine, Parking Robotic and Straightforward Swap are on show.
Metropolis Pod is an unmanned, massive logistics mobility machine that surpasses the boundaries of current techniques primarily based on software program know-how. It’s geared up with an computerized logistics classification system that strikes organically and actively in any respect phases. It makes use of hydrogen power know-how and is anticipated for use diversely in every day life and industrial websites, together with logistics, public transportation, industrial uncooked supplies and waste transportation, and hydrogen power transportation.
Straightforward Swap is a know-how that permits customers to switch life modules based on the buyer’s model. Customers can detach the enterprise module from the fastened platform, referred to as the motive force module, by way of the boarding and alighting machine and mix it with one other module appropriate for the aim. This permits one car for use as an workplace, luxurious limousine, camper, and many others.
The Parking Robotic, developed by Hyundai WIA, is a pair of skinny, broad robots that go below the car, elevate the wheels, and transfer them. The robotic’s thickness is designed to be 110 mm in order that it may be utilized to any car. It has been developed to maneuver in any route — entrance, again, left and proper — in order that it will probably 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 individuals can stroll amidst plentiful greenery, reflecting the perfect of a metropolis dwelling in concord with nature. By means of 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.
By means of the infographic stand put in on the outskirts of the park, the picture of a sustainable future metropolis that considers not solely individuals and nature, but in addition 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 life-style. Consistent with the Group’s strategic route of remodeling into software-oriented mobility, it should construct an city ecosystem the place information will be interconnected and operated to create a extra handy and safer city atmosphere.
The Group will even launch a manifesto movie to articulate the core values, philosophy, and function of its good metropolis in a relatable approach. This movie focuses on extra than simply the Group’s modern know-how; it brings to life the good metropolis values that heart on humanity and the on a regular basis lives of individuals. Utilizing cinematic strategies, the movie conveys the good metropolis philosophy the place individuals, not know-how, are the principle characters. It avoids the widespread sci-fi really feel related to future depictions and as an alternative adopts a heat tone to painting a future that’s fascinating for individuals.
