Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung ally to connect car and home

Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung introduced a partnership Thursday to develop connectivity between automobiles and in-home gadgets—with potential advantages for EV homeowners.

The purpose is to permit Hyundai and Kia homeowners to remotely management home equipment by way of their vehicles’ infotainment techniques, and likewise use good audio system and televisions or smartphone apps to manage sure automobile features from their properties, in accordance with Hyundai.

Hyundai Residence

This shall be made attainable by integration of Hyundai and Kia’s linked automobile companies with Samsung’s “SmartThings” digital platform, the discharge stated. Hyundai and Kia will develop “secure service-providing infotainment techniques” for this objective, including options by way of over-the-air (OTA) replace. However Hyundai additionally stated a few of these options may additionally be made accessible to present automobiles by way of OTA updates or with new software program added by way of USB.

One characteristic deliberate particularly for EV homeowners is vitality administration, permitting homeowners to “test the vitality use of their dwelling and automobile and regulate the optimum charging occasions,” in accordance with Hyundai. This would offer a degree of integration Hyundai does not at present have. For now, it has Hyundai Home, which serves as an aggregation instrument serving to EV patrons arrange charging, photo voltaic, and vitality storage.

2024 Kia EV9

Hyundai has stated that its E-GMP platform for EVs helps bidirectional charging, however the firm’s EVs up till now have not had the characteristic enabled. The Kia EV9 is the primary E-GMP mannequin to offer bidirectional charging in a type Individuals can use—together with vehicle-to-home (V2H) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities, with Wallbox. 

Along with fulfilling the potential of E-GMP, this might lastly understand Hyundai’s promise that Ioniq as an EV brand would span past simply automobiles. However with no agency timeline from Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung on when this elevated connectivity will turn into accessible, it is unclear when that may occur.