The automotive world has a great deal of advancing technologies taking place at the same time including the lineup of Hyundai SUVs on the market. We are seeing different automakers working toward the goal of creating autonomous models and several that are also looking for ways to give us more range from the EV and fuel cell vehicles that will be offered for the future. With that in mind, it’s incredible to realize that one company might do both at the same time to give us more of what we want for the future of driving. This does make sense considering the testing being done to make all these different technologies work together.
Hyundai has recently announced they will put autonomous features in a fuel cell SUV that first showed up on the market last summer. This model was only called the boring name of “Fuel cell EV” and it was designed from the ground up to be a hydrogen-powered vehicle for the drive. This new model will have an estimated range of 500 miles from a single full hydrogen tank which would make it 20 percent more efficient than the previous Tucson FCEV. This model is also expected to be more powerful than the IX35 as well, which was a Tucson based model as well.
Adding Autonomous Driving
The plan for this vehicle is to make it the forward thinking crossover SUV they are looking for that can drive itself wherever you need it to go. The Hyundai team has partnered with Aurora to develop the technology needed to make this work. Aurora was founded by a former Google engineer named Chris Urmson. This collaboration of the two companies makes it possible for Hyundai to feel confident in the desire and the goal to bring a self-driving version of this vehicle to the market by the 2021 model year.
Using the Aurora technology for the safety and driving of this new SUV, the goal is to offer a suite of Level 4 autonomous technology for this car to advance the mobility of the brand and take the lead in the race to provide a truly autonomous vehicle for the Hyundai brand. With this partnership, Urmson, is confident the vehicle design that Hyundai offers can put the Aurora self-driving expertise to work for the positive results desired for the drive when the “Fuel cell EV” with self-driving technology is put out on the road.
Where to Find the Next Hyundai
The team at Hyundai will allow us to know more about the features of the autonomous technology when it shows off this new concept at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show later this month. The ongoing collaboration between these two will focus on the development of the features needed to make the autonomous technology work while Hyundai continues to study the fuel cell model that’s powered by Hydrogen that could easily be the clean and renewable fuel used for the future of driving on the roads we travel. This will be an interesting display for us to see what the pair have in mind in Las Vegas later this month.