- Hyundai Motor Group to current a future metropolis the place expertise is harmoniously linked in three core facets of the town: Area, Mobility and Vitality
- The Group to showcase human-centered good metropolis options underneath the imaginative and prescient ‘Inspiring Human Progress,’ with zones targeted 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 far more
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) introduced that it’ll take part for the primary time within the World Good Metropolis Expo 2024 (WSCE). The expo will probably be held from September 3–5 at KINTEX in Korea, showcasing human-centered good metropolis options.
WSCE is a worldwide expo the place the most recent applied sciences, insurance policies and options for good cities are shared and mentioned. It has been held eight occasions since its inception in 2017 underneath 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 corporations from 70 international locations participated, introducing numerous options for future cities, resembling good infrastructure and power effectivity. This 12 months, numerous experiences and exhibitions will probably be held underneath the slogan ‘Higher Life is Right here.’
At this 12 months’s WSCE, the Group is about to examine a future metropolis the place expertise seamlessly integrates the town’s three core components: Area, Mobility and Vitality.
“Our dedication extends past mobility; we try to innovate constantly to boost life high quality throughout numerous facets of our cities,” stated Heung-Soo Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of the International Technique Workplace (GSO) at Hyundai Motor Group. “We are going to proceed to leverage our Group-wide capabilities to comprehend sustainable good cities that encourage human progress underneath 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 may 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 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) system 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 get pleasure from unrestricted motion. It gives optimized area and customised seats in line with consumer situations 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 system, Parking Robotic and Straightforward Swap are on show.
Metropolis Pod is an unmanned, giant logistics mobility system that surpasses the bounds of current methods based mostly on software program expertise. It’s geared up with an computerized logistics classification system that strikes organically and actively in any respect levels. It makes use of hydrogen power expertise and is predicted 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 expertise that permits customers to exchange 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 system 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, vast robots that go underneath the car, 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 car. It has been developed to maneuver in any course — entrance, again, left and proper — in order that it will possibly transfer autos even in slim areas the place parking is tough.
The park exhibit, within the ‘Vitality and Infrastructure’ zone on the middle of the sales space, embodies the Group’s imaginative and prescient for a wise metropolis: a spot the place individuals can stroll amidst considerable greenery, reflecting the perfect 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 features geared up with mobility, logistics and power infrastructure.
By 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 based mostly on the hydrogen worth chain from the manufacturing, motion, and storage to utilization.
Subsequent, the Group plans to construct a wise metropolis platform that seamlessly connects mobility options and infrastructure. The core of a wise metropolis is to attach all infrastructure and providers within the metropolis into one to handle them effectively and supply a greater way of life. According to the Group’s strategic course of remodeling into software-oriented mobility, it would construct an city ecosystem the place knowledge could be interconnected and operated to create a extra handy and safer city atmosphere.
The Group may even launch a manifesto movie to articulate the core values, philosophy, and function of its good metropolis in a relatable method. This movie focuses on extra than simply the Group’s modern expertise; it brings to life the good metropolis values that middle 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 expertise, 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.
