Gadgetory

i'm going to show you this Hyundai in Toronto concept this way before I show you the outside which is kind of interesting because it's a big deal that Peter Schreyer designed this he's the new design chief at Hyundai who already was the design chief at kia who before that was the design chief at Audi but before we get to his stylings look at the structure of this an interesting sort of a carbon fiber backbone and shell upon which they say they can hang almost any kind of material of body panel because this thing is so rigid whatever is on the outside is kind of just a dress if you will obviously it's a hydrogen fuel cell car you see your two hydrogen tanks in the back notice the thing about hydrogen tanks to get the strength to hold that pressure they still pretty much have to be these sort of capsule pale shapes no one's figured out a way to make them sort of irregular shapes and retain their strength though people are trying because that would help packaging quite a bit beyond that pretty conventional stuff we're doing conversion of hydrogen into basically just water vapor and running an electric battery up at the front here here's what it looks like dressed as you can see it's a pretty fresh design for Hyundai now as I mentioned because they've got this frame envision that is so strong and rigid they think you could hang any kind of a panel on your it's kind of like the body panels on a smart fortwo to be honest which are also interchangeable in kind of irrelevant now look inside the cabin and I can do a quick off the cuff top five for you first of all head up display it's coming down from the expensive cars second LCD instrument panel gauges are going away third the pop-up toaster slice style of central disc light a lot of car makers are doing that these days for you got this high wide backbone for the center console Porsche got on that a few years ago and five you've got instead of side view mirrors side view rear facing cameras this isn't coming to market of course the entrado is strictly a design exercise but hopefully one that shows a lot of truth and where Hyundai is going and by the way they've already got a fuel cell vehicle out in limited production so this isn't that much pie in the sky you