Much like Bosch, which is engaged on a hydrogen automotive engine, Hyundai has introduced that it too is doubling down on hydrogen, presenting what it calls a blueprint for a hydrogen power ecosystem. Hyundai has the world’s highest market share in hydrogen-powered automobile gross sales, although that isn’t almost as spectacular because it sounds, after all. Hyundai’s future hydrogen options will supposedly transcend passenger vehicles, vehicles, and buses to incorporate issues corresponding to trams, ships, energy mills, and planes.
At its press convention at present, the group introduced it’s engaged on tech that goals to remodel pollution into clear hydrogen. Hyundai has two approaches for this: Waste-to-Hydrogen (W2H) and Plastic-to-Hydrogen (P2H). W2H entails the fermentation of natural waste (meals waste, livestock manure, and many others) to generate biogas. This biogas is then handled to seize carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. P2H entails melting waste plastics that can’t be recycled, gasifying the molten plastics, and then producing hydrogen from this by eradicating “unnecessary elements”.
The different primary focus of Hyundai’s CES bulletins was on software program, persevering with the auto development we’re seeing this 12 months the place new {hardware} is taking one thing of a again seat. A brand new Software-Defined Everything’ (SDX) technique will deal with, after all, AI.
The SDX technique inevitably consists of software-defined autos (SDVs). Apparently, the concept is to “decouple hardware and software” in its vehicles, main to raised, sooner, and wider updates. Such a scheme leaves you questioning if this wasn’t finished already, then why wasn’t it? Indeed, the sharing of tech between Hyundai and sister-brand Kia is already intensive, so it’s unclear how this new initiative strikes issues additional, although “software-defined fleets for businesses” had been talked about.
Hyundai additionally mentioned it intends to remodel its autos into “AI machines” so it may well personalize person experiences and ship “added-value”. But we’ve heard this earlier than many occasions from different producers. All of them wish to do that, however few appear clear on precisely easy methods to do it efficiently. Part of the group’s efforts to realize this entails writing its personal software program for its person interface and creating a brand new infotainment system full with the compulsory app market. And, in contrast to Volkswagen, which has opted to combine ChatGPT into its coming vehicles, Hyundai group is now creating its personal LLM to place in its autos. All that is going to take time, although, so don’t anticipate the primary software program from this initiative to drop till 2026.