LAS VEGAS — Hyundai kicked off its time on the 2024 Shopper Electronics Present with a quite broad define of each its hydrogen improvement actions and plans for software program implementation in its automobiles. They vary from pretty imprecise data to extra particular, and all the things from vehicle-specific to vitality era.
Hydrogen
Hyundai went most in-depth with its hydrogen work, and it definitely appears devoted to creating the gasoline a serious a part of the renewable vitality combine. It will likely be lumping mainly each side of its hydrogen work together with “production, storage, transportation, and utilization” beneath its HTWO model (get it?). And amongst these classes, Hyundai can be working exhausting on the primary few elements of that. It is engaged on getting extra firms concerned with off-take offers (agreements to buy hydrogen) to construct up the demand-side of the market. Hyundai itself is aiming for utilizing hydrogen in each powering metal manufacturing amenities and normal electrical energy manufacturing.
It is also growing PEM electrolyzers (Hyundai refers to it as “polymer-electrolyte membrane,” although it is also known as “proton-exchange membrane”) for hydrogen manufacturing at “megawatt-scale.” Most of these electrolyzers, versus extra frequent alkaline electrolyzers, have benefits in being extra compact with longer-lasting electrolytes, speedy start-up and extremely pure hydrogen manufacturing.
Moreover on the manufacturing aspect, Hyundai’s HTWO is engaged on different strategies for producing hydrogen from varied waste. A few of that features utilizing biogas from natural wastes corresponding to manure and meals, and a few of it comes from waste plastics by melting down and gasifying plastics to extract varied parts from, leaving hydrogen fuel.
Then on the utilization entrance, Hyundai will proceed its implementation of economic vehicles and associated infrastructure. It has already been working XCIENT gasoline cell vehicles to the Port of Oakland, and later, it’s going to additionally use related vehicles on the massive EV manufacturing unit its constructing in Georgia.
Software program
Much more imprecise had been Hyundai’s feedback about its software program plans. It referred to its want to have software-defined all the things, or “SDx.” After all an enormous side of that is with “SDV” or software-defined automobiles. And what this implies is Hyundai can be engaged on creating its personal app market, making improvement kits accessible for folks and firms to develop apps for Hyundai automobiles. Why ought to Apple and Google have all of the app (and information and monetization) enjoyable to themselves?
Hyundai additionally plans to additional implement large-language mannequin AI in its voice assistant and navigation expertise. Plus, it plans to supply extra data instruments for fleet operators. A few of this improvement will play into Hyundai’s targets of offering autonomous automobiles and other ways to entry automobiles.
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