Hyundai’s Ionic Cabin Concept.
The car of the future is an extension of your home, according to Hyundai.
The Korean auto manufacturer unveiled a concept cabin design that looks not at all like the snug second row interior you usually find in today’s cars and SUVs and more like your living room.
The Ioniq Concept Cabin is outfitted with a capsule coffee machine and mini refrigerator to make stops at Starbucks
Speakers embedded in the headrests and a ceiling-mounted 77-inch flexible OLED screen enables a seamless transition for streaming whatever you were watching before you left the house. If you hit a bump in the road and spill your morning coffee, a floor cleaning robot keeps the cabin clean and overhead UV LED lights ensures surfaces are disinfected.
“The Ioniq Concept Cabin is one of a kind and an unprecedented approach to enhancing customer experience as it can be customized for different needs and lifestyles,” said Wonhong Cho, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer of Hyundai. “Dedicated EVs will enable us to revolutionize the experience Hyundai delivers to its customers, empowering them to do more in and out of the vehicles.”
This evolution of vehicle-as-transportation to “personalized mobility solution” concept demonstrates what’s possible when self-driving vehicles finally arrive. Autonomous vehicles will free up time and attention that occupants would have spent focusing on the road, and high-capacity electric batteries in electric vehicles open up cabin space and provide a power source for appliances.
This design exercise is part of Hyundai’s human-centered “Mobility Vision” concept it debuted at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show and developed in partnership with LG Electronics.
While this mobile sitting room seems far fetched, the company says it plans to offer similar “value-added experiences” in vehicles, starting with the Ioniq 5 EV slated to launch early next year.
