Las Vegas — Vehicle technology took up the entire West Hall and part of the North Hall at CES 2025. Here are more automotive related debuts from this year’s show:
Chinese automaker Zeekr brought three new vehicles to CES. We’re going to highlight two of them—the 001 FR sedan and the 009 Grand. The 001 FR is an electric shooting brake with a 100 kWH battery offering a range of up to 435 miles. The 009 Grand is a four-seat luxury minivan with a 108 kWH battery and a high performance silicon carbide electric drive system.
Hyundai Mobis introduced its all new full windshield holographic display. It features a panoramic projection of various driving information, navigation and infotainment data across the vehicle’s front windshield.
Oshkosh showed off its new electrification, AI, autonomy and connectivity solutions for everyday heroes. First, Oshkosh introduced its collision avoidance mitigation system for first responders. It uses sensors and radar to detect the speed and proximity of oncoming vehicles.
Secondly, their new Oshkosh driverless cargo handler will transport baggage between designated locations on the airport ramp.
“This is our future of where the baggage trackers are going to go,” said Michael Church with Oshkosh AeroTech. “A proof of concept will be this year. This is fully electric. For 90 percent of our customers that are taking from the aircraft to the sort facility, this has the ability to fit that need instead of having an operator do those long distance drives. They can reassign those people to other more important tasks and have this do that drive for them.”
Third, the Oshkosh Harr-E is an autonomous robot designed for on-demand garbage collection to help manage weekly chores. It works alongside your smartphone app or virtual at home assistant.
“What Harr-E will do is come to your doorstep, collect your refuge and bring it back out,” said Tim Gilman, senior manager of public relations at Oshkosh Corp. “Much like you would order an Uber, you get your phone apps, you call Harr-E out and it will come to you. If you throw in your refuge or recycling and push the button, saying that I’m ready for it to go, Harr-E will then close and take it away to the dump site in your community. Harr-E shows off Oshkosh’s expertise in autonomous capability and electrification.”
Kubota showed off several new solutions for residential, agriculture and construction.
First, the AGRI concept 2.0 is an electric tractor concept offering data, AI, automation and electrification as a choice of powertrain for when you want to drive and autonomous when you don’t.
“It’s a fully autonomous small tractor,” said Nate Bernklau, senior research technologist at Kubota Tractor Corp. “It also allows folks to enjoy driving it if they want to. It’s got a cab that lifts up. If you’re in a situation where you need to jump on the tractor, we still give folks that option. We know we’re not just going to get to full autonomy in one leap. We’re going to need humans in the loop for a while. Then, there’s folks like me that enjoy driving a tractor.”
Next, the KATR is a four-wheeled all terrain, multifunctional robot. The KATR maintains a level cargo deck when working on uneven terrain and can work autonomously or remotely to tackle a range of versatile applications in agriculture and construction environments.
“On the top here, you can see we’ve got our plant health imager,” Bernklau explained. “This imager can be swapped with different tools depending on what your task is. This particular one has advanced cameras and imaging systems that are looking for plant health. There’s certain type of plant analogies that are not going to present to the human eye but a camera can see them readily. With machine learning, we can give growers advance warning to take care of those issues right away.”
Suzuki partnered with Applied EV to develop a safe, simple, small-car-sized autonomous electric platform that specializes in work mobility. Also, their Versatile micro e-Mobility Platform concept applies the electric wheelchair technology that Suzuki has cultivated over the years to provide the undercarriage of various robots.
Finally, Brunswick displayed a 40-foot Boston Whaler 405 Conquest to show off its latest development version of its autonomous docking system.
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