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The International Motor Show, which was suspended due to COVID-19, was held in Germany for the first time in two years.
This year’s topic was, by far, eco-friendly.
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company has announced that it will achieve zero carbon emissions by 2045 by 2045.
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The German Motor Show is one of the world’s four major motor shows.
This year it was held in Munich, not Frankfurt.
The name of the event was also changed to ‘Mobility’, which means movement, rather than a motor that means automobile.
It means that future technology will cover all means of transportation, not just automobiles.
The atmosphere of the event, which showed off the power and design of the engine, has also changed dramatically.
Most of the new cars announced are eco-friendly cars.
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled five pure electric vehicles, including the E-Class, which can travel 660 km on a single charge.
Neither the luxury brand Maybach nor the high-performance brand AMG came out with an electric motor and battery, instead of an engine and transmission.
BMW unveiled its hydrogen car model for the first time and announced a plan to supply 10 million electric vehicles over the next 10 years.
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“The automotive industry has entered a period of complete transition towards decarbonization. The digitalization of the products itself is changing, as well as the way products are produced.”
Hyundai Motor Company also unveiled a robot taxi equipped with a fully autonomous driving function on the Ioniq 5.
Hyundai Motor Company has declared that it will reduce the amount of carbon generated in the entire process of automobile production, operation, disposal, and the entire process to ‘0’ by 2045.
All electricity needed during the production process will be covered by renewable energy.
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“On the morning of September 6, 2045, the first generation of a zero-emission, renewable, 100% carbon neutral planet will be born.”
This change in automobile companies is not a voluntary choice, but because of survival.
Europe has decided to ban the sale of internal combustion locomotives from 2035, and the United States has decided to sell half of its cars as zero-emission vehicles by 2030.
This is Yunmi Kim from MBC News.
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