[2022 Green Mobility Award] Technology Award 'Hyundai Mobis'

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] Hyundai Mobis is rapidly transforming into a smart mobility innovation company that provides an integrated platform combining software and hardware, as the automotive industry swiftly reorganizes around future mobility sectors centered on autonomous driving, connectivity, and electrification.

Hyundai Mobis, which has secured world-class competitiveness in the three core automotive module sectors, plans to lead the global electrified mobility market with a skateboard-type module that integrates a portfolio of key electrification components. The skateboard-type module combines electrification core parts with an e-powertrain system on the chassis frame, which forms the vehicle's skeleton. Global automakers can develop electric vehicle-based Purpose Built Vehicles (PBVs) using this module as a foundation.

Hyundai Mobis has also succeeded in developing the next-generation automotive wheel, the ‘e-corner module,’ recognized as an innovative technology essential for realizing future smart mobility. The e-corner module integrates steering, braking, suspension, and driving systems into a single wheel, revolutionizing the traditional vehicle paradigm where the steering wheel was mechanically connected to the wheels via shafts. Applying this technology allows the wheels to rotate up to 90 degrees, enabling the vehicle to rotate in place or move sideways in ‘crab driving.’

To provide differentiated mobility convenience and unique travel experiences to future mobility users, Hyundai Mobis is developing and commercializing technologies optimized for future mobility, such as foldable steering wheels, airbags for autonomous driving, and urban autonomous driving systems. The foldable steering wheel is a technology that appears and disappears as needed in autonomous or manual driving modes, enabling not only a spacious interior but also revolutionary design differentiation in the driver's seat area.

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