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Hyundai Motor Group Presents HMG Smart City Vision at 2022 World Cities Summit
16 Oct, 2022 09:00 AM■ Hyundai Motor Group presents a human-centered future city vision
that is well connected by mobility solutions while coexisting harmoniously with
nature
■ HMG Smart City is a sustainable green city concept enabled by
autonomous mobility, advanced air mobility, robotics and hydrogen fuel cell
technology
■ The Group is uniquely positioned to offer smart and sustainable
mobility solutions and a sustainable power source to support the development of
smart cities
SEOUL,
August 1, 2022 – Hyundai Motor Group (The Group) today presented the HMG Smart
City master model at the 2022 World Cities Summit in Singapore.
The model represents the Group’s vision for smart cities and illustrates how it will empower them with sustainable and smart mobility solutions. The model will serve as a guideline for developing smart mobility solutions that support smart cities around the world while revitalizing their urban communities. During the development of the model, the Group also affirmed its smart city philosophy which are ‘human-centered, coexist with nature, and embrace the future.’
Hyundai
Motor Group President and Chief Innovation Officer, Youngcho Chi, further
elaborated on the Group’s vision for smart cities during his participation in
the World Cities Summit panel discussion.
“The HMG Smart City master model is our vision for a human-centered
city that will revitalize urban communities. In the future smart cities, our
ambition is for humankind to live with nature while embracing technology. Our
air and ground mobility solutions will redefine urban boundaries, connect
people in meaningful ways, and revitalize cities,” President Chi said. “We will
continue to work with governments around the globe to bring our smart city
vision to reality, while rapidly advancing capabilities in future mobility
solutions.”
The
HMG Smart City concept, inspired by a honeycomb pattern, is a hexagonal-shaped
city with a human-centered surface layer, and function-centered underground
layer. On the surface layer, the buildings encircle nature, in the form of
parks and forest, which sit at the center of the city, effectively minimizing
the gross area developed by humankind.
The
buildings are divided into three sections by population density – high, medium
and low. The density decreases nearer the parks and forests in the city center,
affording people an unobstructed view of nature from any part of the city.
Buildings are arranged within these sections according to their purposes. For
instance, city landmarks will be in the high-density area, while security
infrastructure will be located in the medium density area, enabling effortless
access to any section.
The
city will be connected through road infrastructure in the underground layer.
All goods and services will be transported underground via autonomous mobility
to each region’s automated logistics hub, where autonomous robots will make the
final delivery.
Citizens
will travel between cities by the advanced air mobility (AAM). The AAM vehicles
will land and take off from a series of the Hub 2.0 towers, which combine
residential and office areas with AAM ports at the top of the building.
The
HMG Smart City concept also envisions a sustainable green city where large
natural areas are preserved. The city center will feature recreational forests,
parks, and a reservoir to provide water for the city. To ensure carbon
neutrality, the city’s primary power source will be hydrogen, distributed
through the smart grid pipelines to power buildings through hydrogen fuel cell
generators.
The
Hyundai Motor Group announced its vision for future cities and supporting smart
mobility solutions at CES in 2020. Since then, the Group has been developing
smart mobility solutions rapidly.
The
Group introduced ground-breaking EVs such as the Hyundai IONIQ 5 and Kia EV6
while announcing plans to produce Purpose Built Vehicles (PBVs) and robotaxis
in future. Motional, the Group’s joint venture for autonomous driving
technology, is currently developing robotaxis which will be commercialized in
2023. The Group’s AAM subsidiary, Supernal, recently revealed the cabin concept
of eVTOL vehicle, currently under development with an aim of commercialization
in 2028.
The
Group is also working closely with governments around the world to make cities
smarter. The Group signed MOU with Singapore’s government agency JTC on a
transport modeling project that aims to enhance logistics efficiency using
autonomous driving, EV, AI, and big data.
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About Hyundai Motor Group
Hyundai Motor Group is a global enterprise
that has created a value chain based on mobility, steel, and construction, as
well as logistics, finance, IT, and service. With about 250,000 employees
worldwide, the Group's mobility brands include Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis. Armed
with creative thinking, cooperative communication and the will to take on any
challenges, we strive to create a better future for all.
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