CES 2019: Elevate clears almost every hurdle 🎥
ALL-KNEY Hyundai Motor is presenting a vehicle of a rather unusual kind at CES in Las Vegas (goes until January 11). Hyundai's Elevate walking car automatically adjusts to inaccessible terrain. With the Elevate project of the Cradle innovation network, Hyundai is founding a new vehicle category: the Ultimate Mobility Vehicle (UMV). The prototype Elevate Walking [...]
Hyundai's Elevate Walking Car automatically adjusts to inaccessible terrain.
With the Elevate project of the Cradle innovation network, Hyundai is founding a new vehicle category: the Ultimate Mobility Vehicle (UMV). The prototype Elevate Walking Car is intended for use in inaccessible areas, which the Elevate is supposed to be able to traverse with its four movable legs. To see how it all works, watch the video. In addition, the key areas of open innovation, electric strategy as well as connected mobility, of the Korean brand are the focus of the show.
Driving environment and lifestyle
The Style Set Free vehicle personalization concept is designed to allow users to adapt their driving environment to their own lifestyle and continuously improve it. Hyundai uses the data generated by the smart vehicles to create an open ecosystem between the vehicles and their environment. In doing so, a variety of information and communication technology applications enable the structural flow of public data transmission between vehicles and the environment.
Expanded innovation network
With Cradle, Hyundai is looking to innovate in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, mobility solutions and cyber security. To this end, Hyundai is partnering with startups and last year made investments in more than 30 different companies such as Way-Ray and Perceptive Automata.
Platform for Smart Transport
In the future, exclusive electric vehicles will follow, with which Hyundai intends to build a platform for smart transportation. The electric vehicles will be equipped with the world's first integrated drive axle technology IDA (Integrated Drive Axle). The technology is being developed on the "E-GMP" platform.
Networking millions of vehicles
In addition to personalizing the interior, Hyundai is pushing connected vehicle technology. An open platform provides external connectivity for third parties who can use their ideas with Hyundai's publicly available vehicle data. By the beginning of 2021, Hyundai aims to have connected a total of ten million vehicles.
