Hyundai Motor has announced that the company has partnered
with South Korea’s capital Seoul to build an urban air mobility ecosystem. It
adds that the new system for transportation will be commercialized by 2028.
Hyundai is aiming to offer a safe, noiseless,
cost-effective, and consumer-centric Urban Air Mobility service. It’s
noteworthy that other automakers, including Toyota, are also investing in this
new sector. The automaker says that the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem will
start with a vision for landing stations for the air taxis (which are being
called Vertiport) and building a long-term roadmap for the sector.
Talking about the advantages that Hyundai Motors has when it
comes to UAM, Song Jae-Yong, Director of the company touted 37 manufacturing
facilities across 10 countries as well as its subsidiary for components,
infrastructure, and finance. He also talked about the firm’s development of
technologies in electric and hydrogen fuels.In order to boost the UAM efforts,
the South Korean automating giant hired Dr. Shin Jai-won in 2019 who previously
worked at NASA in the United States. The company is also planning to establish
a subsidiary in Washington, DC for its UAM business. The company was previously
in talks with the officials of Los Angeles to commercialize UAM and is set to
demonstrate a vertiport prototype in the UK later this year. As for South
Korea, Hyundai says that the transportation service will start from Gimpo
International Airport to about 30 to 70 kilometers in the city.
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