Hyundai Motor Group right this moment formally opens the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Heart Singapore (HMGICS) to speed up the supply of the Group’s human-centric future mobility imaginative and prescient, the place additionally they constructed IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 5 Robotaxi.
The power introduces a brand new ‘good city mobility hub’ idea, which features a extremely automated versatile manufacturing system and offers unprecedented methods for electrical automobile (EV) patrons to work together with their automobiles and the Hyundai model. HMGICS symbolizes the Group’s willpower to progress onwards with its international management within the creation of sustainable, revolutionary mobility options and progressive buyer expertise.
Following the Group’s groundbreaking ceremony at its new Ulsan EV manufacturing unit, HMGICS will set up itself as one in every of two Hyundai Motor Group innovation pillars that can lead the corporate’s future within the electrification period over the following 50 years as a part of its problem to change into a 100-year firm.
Given its worldwide status for innovation and variety, Hyundai Motor Group selected Singapore as the best residence for its first industry-changing good city mobility hub. Delivering a human-centric manufacturing method, HMGICS elevates collaboration between individuals, robotics, and Synthetic Intelligence (AI) know-how to new ranges of synchronization. Additional to this, digital twin Meta-Manufacturing facility know-how will guarantee ultra-rapid responses to altering buyer calls for and manufacturing necessities.
Seamlessly built-in into the Jurong Innovation District city panorama and the broader Singapore good metropolis ecosystem, the seven-story, 86,900 ㎡ HMGICS facility has the potential to fabricate as much as 30,000 EVs each year. Operational since early 2023, HMGICS already produces IONIQ 5 and the totally autonomous IONIQ 5 robotaxi and can add IONIQ 6 to its portfolio of fashions constructed on-site subsequent yr. The power will function a testbed for creating future mobility options — together with Function Constructed Autos (PBVs) — due to its superior manufacturing functionality.
As a part of its ongoing collaboration with Singapore, HMGICS will accomplice with the Nationwide Museum of Singapore by donating the primary IONIQ 5 manufactured on the facility. This proposed donation is meant for accession into the Nationwide Heritage Board’s Nationwide Assortment.
As a part of its ongoing collaboration with Singapore, HMGICS will accomplice with the Nationwide Museum of Singapore by donating the primary IONIQ 5 manufactured on the facility. This proposed donation is meant for accession into the Nationwide Heritage Board’s Nationwide Assortment.
HMGICS delivers new requirements of buyer expertise via the all-encompassing good city mobility options it develops, redefining the shopper journey from the primary interplay with the model, to the gross sales course of, supply, and possession. With enhanced flexibility due to the hub’s cell-based manufacturing system, HMGICS affords a good higher degree of customization.
The handy order-from-home service permits prospects to tailor the specification of their automobile, selecting their exterior colour and inside trim configuration, making use of this to their automotive immediately earlier than finishing preliminary deposit and stability cost processes via safe on-line cost strategies to verify their buy.
Forward of their first go to to HMGICS, prospects can e book a digital actuality (VR) tour of the ability (topic to availability) whereas private ‘Gurus’ might be obtainable on-site for guests trying to be taught extra about Hyundai and the model’s mobility choices.
HMGICS’ Gurus will accompany prospects on their guided tour of the ability, in addition to offering perception into their chosen automobile, providing take a look at drives across the Jurong Innovation District. For an extra thrill, prospects can take pleasure in an immersive take a look at journey expertise on the ability’s gorgeous 618-meter rooftop Skytrack. A novel handover zone, created to make the second of shoppers taking possession of their new automobile as particular and as memorable as potential, can also be a key characteristic of the HMGICS hub.
To finish the shopper expertise, a brand new Sensible Farm presents a futuristic resolution to boost Singapore’s meals manufacturing capabilities, exemplifying the Group’s imaginative and prescient for sustainable city development.
With just one % of land given over to agriculture as a result of its rocky geology, Singapore imports 90 % of meals consumed within the area. To extend meals self-sufficiency the Singapore authorities has launched its 30 by 30 coverage, selling various agricultural applied sciences, together with good farms. The HMGICS Sensible Farm focuses not simply on productiveness in a compact atmosphere, but additionally enhancing buyer consciousness by permitting guests to interactively expertise the whole farming course of.
By way of the synchronization of human efforts and an automatic conveyor system using subtle robotics, the Sensible Farm produces as much as 9 completely different crops inside the facility. Harvested produce is given to prospects as a memento of their go to, in addition to donated to native communities in Singapore. The crops may even characteristic on the menu of the tasting lounge and the upcoming farm-to-table restaurant — scheduled to open in Q2 2024 — for patrons to take pleasure in sustainable dishes.