Hyundai scores design award
HYUNDAI’S TRAILER DRONE FULLY AUTONOMOUS hydrogen mobility concept has secured the Korean marque its first-ever `Luminary’ honour at Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2022.
The `Luminary’ title is the highest level of recognition accorded at the Red Dot Award: Design Concept, selected from among Red Dot’s `Best of the Best’ winners to serve as inspiration and role model for designers.
The hydrogen-powered container transportation system is capable of operating fully autonomously. With the number of intelligently packaged hydrogen tanks tailored to the journey profile, the Trailer Drone ensures more than 1,000km of range from a single refuel, comparable to existing container transportation systems.
The concept is based around the flexibility of e-bogies to deliver a unique and innovative commercial mobility solution in which a trailer is placed on two e-bogies, allowing it to rotate in a smaller radius than a general trailer.
Unlike conventional tractors that are designed for container transportation only, Trailer Drone offers a multi-purpose platform capable of unlimited business applications. When operated separately from a container trailer, the e-bogie can be used in fields such as construction, firefighting and rescue.
“Trailer Drone is an important model that shows our vision for fully autonomous, hydrogen fuel cell-based commercial vehicles,” says Sangyup Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Hyundai Global Design Centre.
“This Luminary award celebrates the passion and efforts of our designers and engineers to make the dream of zero-emission mobility come true.”
Hosted by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany, Red Dot Award is one of the world’s largest design competitions. The award breaks down into three different disciplines — Product Design, Brand & Communication Design and Design Concept — to better appraise the diversity in the field of design.
The Red Dot Award: Design Concept invites designers, design studios, companies and universities to present their most exciting design concepts and prototypes to an international panel of design experts.
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