- Hyundai Motor Group to current a future metropolis the place expertise is harmoniously linked in three core points of the town: House, Mobility and Power
- 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 ‘Power 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 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 newest 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 yr, a complete of 320 corporations from 70 nations participated, introducing varied options for future cities, comparable to sensible infrastructure and vitality effectivity. This yr, varied experiences and exhibitions shall be held below the slogan ‘Higher Life is Right here.’
At this yr’s WSCE, the Group is ready to examine a future metropolis the place expertise seamlessly integrates the town’s three core components: House, Mobility and Power.
“Our dedication extends past mobility; we try to innovate repeatedly to boost life high quality throughout varied points of our cities,” stated Heung-Soo Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of the International Technique Workplace (GSO) at Hyundai Motor Group. “We’ll proceed to leverage our Group-wide capabilities to comprehend sustainable sensible cities that encourage human progress below the important thing areas: area, mobility, and vitality.”
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 can even be divided into three themes: ‘Transportation,’ ‘Logistics and Robotics’ and ‘Power 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 companies by way of software program expertise 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 complicated air mobility (AAM) gadget able to vertical takeoff and touchdown. Group subsidiary Supernal is growing the S-A2 airframe to fly at a cruising velocity 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 in line with consumer circumstances and helps snug boarding and alighting for wheelchairs, micro-mobility units, pets, and many others., by way of floor management capabilities.
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 boundaries of present programs based mostly on software program expertise. It’s geared up with an automated logistics classification system that strikes organically and actively in any respect levels. It makes use of hydrogen vitality expertise 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 vitality transportation.
Simple Swap is a expertise that enables customers to switch life modules in line with the patron’s model. Customers can detach the enterprise module from the mounted platform, referred to as the driving force module, by way of the boarding and alighting gadget and mix it with one other module appropriate for the aim. This enables 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, huge robots that go below the car, carry 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 course — entrance, again, left and proper — in order that it may transfer automobiles even in slim areas the place parking is tough.
The park exhibit, within the ‘Power 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 considerable greenery, reflecting the best of a metropolis residing in concord with nature. By a construction within the type of a telescope, guests can not directly expertise the design of an underground area centered on capabilities geared up with mobility, logistics and vitality infrastructure.
By 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 based mostly 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 companies within the metropolis into one to handle them effectively and supply a greater life-style. In step with the Group’s strategic course of remodeling into software-oriented mobility, it’ll construct an city ecosystem the place information might be interconnected and operated to create a extra handy and safer city setting.
The Group can even launch a manifesto movie to articulate the core values, philosophy, and objective of its sensible metropolis in a relatable approach. This movie focuses on extra than simply the Group’s revolutionary expertise; it brings to life the sensible metropolis values that heart on humanity and the on a regular basis lives of individuals. Utilizing cinematic methods, the movie conveys the sensible metropolis philosophy the place folks, not expertise, are the primary characters. It avoids the widespread sci-fi really feel related to future depictions and as a substitute adopts a heat tone to painting a future that’s fascinating for folks.
