Hyundai electric cars for China to feature AI

Battery-powered cars from the land of the dragon will feature more advanced autonomous driving than Tesla's.

By: Francesco Barontini

Nov 16, 2024 at 4:43am ET

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Hyundai announced this a few weeks ago. The Korean manufacturer wants to gain market share in China, and to do so it will be concentrating on low-cost but technologically advanced electric cars.

Today, it is revealing a few more details of this plan, stating that the first electric car to be marketed in the land of the dragon will be manufactured in collaboration with Haomo, a Chinese start-up working in the field of autonomous driving and artificial intelligence.

Designed in China for China

The electric car with which Hyundai will take China by storm will be designed directly in China by a local team using artificial intelligence to develop the project quickly and efficiently.

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A fully autonomous driving demonstration vehicle built by Haomo

The car, which will be sold at a low price, will attempt to gain a foothold in China's crowded electric car market by focusing on features that are particularly attractive to local motorists. It will be modern and equipped with the latest technology.

Autonomous driving better than Tesla

Thanks to Haomo, for example, the car will be equipped with a level 2.5 autonomous driving system (an advanced level 2, in other words). It should therefore be more complete than Tesla's Autopilot, which is still classified as a normal 'level 2'.

Haomo's artificial intelligence system is called DriveGTP.

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The software on which Haomo's autonomous driving is based is called DriveGPT and, as its name suggests, it pays homage to the more famous ChatGPT developed by OpenAI. Designed primarily for autonomous driving, it has already been adopted by around twenty models on the road in China and has the ability to update itself in real time by communicating with the stations where traffic data is collected.

Creating a local force

Hyundai, for its part, has strengthened its presence on the Chinese market by making its Research and Development centre in Shanghai independent. It did so with the aim of reacting more quickly to market demands. For the same reason, it is working on creating networks of local suppliers and partners, including Haomo, which will be responsible for a large part of the software.