Hyundai Turned An Ioniq 9 Into A Mobile Seed Bomb Drone Station

Hyundai has unveiled a modified type of its marque caller EV crossover, nan Ioniq 9, that is specifically intended to behaviour drone strikes to create alternatively than destruct life. Really. Called nan Seed Ball Drone Station, it features a afloat tricked retired drone position successful nan back, pinch nan 3rd statement folded down to group up a power rig for nan operators. The electrical car becomes its ain charging position for nan quadcopters, too. A take-off and landing pad besides folds retired of nan trunk, thing that each cars should person conscionable because.

The drones themselves are, literally, bomber drones. In this case, though, nan payload is seed bombs, sometimes called seed balls (Hyundai went pinch nan latter, astir apt to sound little threatening). A seed explosive is simply a mini shot of clay intermixed pinch ungraded and seeds; you tin really bargain immoderate astatine your section nursery. Toss 1 successful a garden, and aft a small while, you'll person caller growths.

Why would Hyundai attraction astir gardening? It doesn't — but it does attraction astir foresting. The thought of nan Seed Ball Drone Station is that it will thrust into forests that person conscionable suffered a wildfire and past deploy drones to reseed difficult to entree areas. This is each portion of nan company's charitable initiative, nan Ioniq Forest project, which wants to thief pinch reforestry efforts each complete nan world. Ioniq Forest is progressive successful 13 countries correct now, including nan U.S., truthful don't beryllium shocked if you spot a Korean EV rolling done your nearest pain area soon.

Part of nan full transportation of EVs is that they are green. That's ever been a spot of a stretch, successful that zero emanation doesn't really thief nan planet, it conscionable doesn't wounded it. With its Ioniq Forest project, though, Hyundai is looking to actually, virtually make nan world a small greener (and advertise its cars successful nan process).

To that point, nan Ioniq 9 Seed Ball Drone Station is really joining its smaller EV cousin, nan Ioniq 5, which has had a Monitoring Drone Station version since 2023. The second has "conducted wood monitoring and information postulation activities" for nan Korean government's wildfire consequence efforts. Hopefully, mobile drone stations for illustration these will go portion of betterment efforts much widely. Precision drone bombing has been honed successful immoderate beautiful horrible conflicts astir nan world; I'd for illustration to spot that tech utilized successful a much affirmative way. Literally regrowing nan Earth is simply a beautiful bully start.