Waymo Chooses the Hyundai Ioniq 5 For New Robotaxi (carscoops.com) 11
Waymo has entered a "multi-year, strategic partnership" with Hyundai to integrate the company's autonomous driving system into the American-made Hyundai Ioniq 5. It's expected to join the Waymo One fleet after road tests starting in late 2025. Carscoops reports: Waymo and Geely joined forces in 2021 to introduce a mobility-focused Zeekr EV. The model was slated to be added to Waymo's fleet of autonomous vehicles and effectively replace their aging Jaguar I-Paces. While that was a solid plan a few years ago, the political climate has changed and China has emerged as America's boogeyman. Just last week, the Biden Administration proposed a new rule that could effectively ban all Chinese cars including models from Buick and Lincoln. [...]
Besides giving Waymo a 'safe' alternative to Zeekr, it sounds like the Ioniq 5 will eventually make up a bulk of the fleet. While that remains unconfirmed, the companies aim to produce the autonomous EVs in a "significant volume over multiple years." The firms also revealed the cars will be delivered with "autonomous-ready modifications like redundant hardware and power doors."
Besides giving Waymo a 'safe' alternative to Zeekr, it sounds like the Ioniq 5 will eventually make up a bulk of the fleet. While that remains unconfirmed, the companies aim to produce the autonomous EVs in a "significant volume over multiple years." The firms also revealed the cars will be delivered with "autonomous-ready modifications like redundant hardware and power doors."
Re: Can't any of companies spell? (Score:3)
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So true. It's ridiculous how seemingly none of those UK and US foreigners have a good grasp of their English language.
Just look at their books and movies.
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So true. It's ridiculous how seemingly none of those UK and US foreigners have a good grasp of their English language. Just look at their books and movies.
Or company/product names missing vowls.
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Hyundai is a Korean company, so it likely means something in Korean.
As for the others, it's the day of SEO. It's easier to search for "Ioniq" and get information about the car, whereas "Ionic" would just complicate the search. Especially if you want to look up information on Ionic Bonds, or Ionic solids witho
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Hyundai is a Korean company, so it likely means something in Korean.
According to the interwebs, it roughly translates to "modernity".
Course, my headcanon is still that Hyundai means "held together with little plastic clips that break if you look at them funny."
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Ioniq .. you mean Ionic?
We're still in the early part of the EV resurgence where companies seem to believe the cars need names that are cutesy puns on electricity-related things. Gasoline has been around long enough that thankfully we don't have anything named something like "Dinojuicer 3000".
The Ioniq 5 is pretty big (Score:2)
I wonder how many Bird scooters would fit in it?
Yo dawg, I heard you like electric mobility as a service, so I put rentable EVs inside your rentable EVs so you can rent an EV with an app while you rent an EV with an app.