Hyundai Motor Group introduced the HMG Sensible Metropolis grasp mannequin on the 2022 World Cities Summit in Singapore. The mannequin represents the Group’s imaginative and prescient for sensible cities and illustrates the way it will empower them with sustainable and sensible mobility options.
The mannequin will function a tenet for creating sensible mobility options that help sensible cities all over the world whereas revitalizing their city communities.
Through the improvement of the mannequin, the Group additionally affirmed its sensible metropolis philosophy which is “human-centered, coexist with nature, and embrace the long run. ”
Hyundai Motor Group President and Chief Innovation Officer, Youngcho Chi, additional elaborated on the Group’s imaginative and prescient for sensible cities throughout his participation within the World Cities Summit panel dialogue.
The HMG Sensible Metropolis grasp mannequin is our imaginative and prescient for a human-centered metropolis that may revitalize city communities. Sooner or later sensible cities, our ambition is for humankind to dwell with nature whereas embracing expertise. Our air and floor mobility options will redefine city boundaries, join individuals in significant methods, and revitalize cities. We’ll proceed to work with governments across the globe to carry our sensible metropolis imaginative and prescient to actuality, whereas quickly advancing capabilities in future mobility options.
—President Chi
The HMG Sensible Metropolis idea, impressed by a honeycomb sample, is a hexagonal-shaped metropolis with a human-centered floor layer, and function-centered underground layer. On the floor layer, the buildings encircle nature, within the type of parks and forest, which sit on the heart of town, successfully minimizing the gross space developed by humankind.
The buildings are divided into three sections by inhabitants density: excessive, medium and low. The density decreases nearer the parks and forests within the metropolis heart, affording individuals an unobstructed view of nature from any a part of town. Buildings are organized inside these sections in response to their functions. For example, metropolis landmarks will probably be within the high-density space, whereas safety infrastructure will probably be positioned within the medium-density space, enabling easy entry to any part.
The town will probably be related by street infrastructure within the underground layer. All items and providers will probably be transported underground through autonomous mobility to every area’s automated logistics hub, the place autonomous robots will make the ultimate supply.
Residents will journey between cities by the superior air mobility (AAM). The AAM automobiles will land and take off from a sequence of the Hub 2.0 towers, which mix residential and workplace areas with AAM ports on the prime of the constructing.
The HMG Sensible Metropolis idea additionally envisions a sustainable inexperienced metropolis the place massive pure areas are preserved. The town heart will function leisure forests, parks, and a reservoir to supply water for town. To make sure carbon neutrality, town’s major energy supply will probably be hydrogen, distributed by the sensible grid pipelines to energy buildings by hydrogen gas cell mills.
The Hyundai Motor Group introduced its imaginative and prescient for future cities and supporting sensible mobility options at CES in 2020. Since then, the Group has been creating sensible mobility options quickly.
The Group launched EVs such because the Hyundai IONIQ 5 and Kia EV6 whereas saying plans to provide Goal Constructed Autos (PBVs) and robotaxis in future. Motional, the Group’s three way partnership for autonomous driving expertise, is at present creating robotaxis which will probably be commercialized in 2023. The Group’s AAM subsidiary, Supernal, not too long ago revealed the cabin idea of eVTOL car, at present below improvement with an intention of commercialization in 2028.
The Group can be working carefully with governments all over the world to make cities smarter. The Group signed MOU with Singapore’s authorities company JTC on a transport modeling undertaking that goals to boost logistics effectivity utilizing autonomous driving, EV, AI, and large knowledge.
