The march toward fully autonomous vehicles is fraught with roadblocks, perhaps one of the most significant being the high electrical consumption of AVs. For this reason, a top Hyundai AV official says self-drivers likely will be coming later than sooner, and they won’t be full battery-electric vehicles as many presume.
“We are developing the fully autonomous technology, the driverless car – (SAE) Level 4 and Level 5, but as of now the power consumption is really huge, it can go up to 1 kW or 2 kW, so it could dramatically decrease the driving range of EVs,” Woongjung Jang, director-advanced driver assist systems for Hyundai, says here at a recent Hyundai media event.
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