A celebration event has been held to mark 20 successful years of quality and performance testing at the Hyundai America Technical Center Inc. California Proving Ground (HATCI CPG) in the USA. Since opening in 2005, more than 5,000 Hyundai, Kia and Genesis vehicles have been scrutinized at the US$80m facility under harsh conditions and on various road types.
Euisun Chung, executive chair of Hyundai Motor Group, said, “Hyundai Motor Group has made exceptional progress over the past 20 years, thanks in part to our California Proving Ground and the outstanding work of our team there. As we look to the future, we must focus on pioneering technologies such as AI, robotics, software-defined vehicles, electrification and hydrogen technology. Facilities like the California Proving Ground will be critical to that innovation and will help shape the next 20 years of Hyundai Motor Group, turning challenges into opportunities and setbacks into successes.”
Located in the heart of the Mojave Desert, HATCI’s testing ground spans 4,500 acres and features a 6.4-mile oval track, a 2,000,000ft2 Vehicle Dynamics Area (VDA), a 2.75-mile winding road track, a 3.3-mile hill road, off-road evaluation loops, and surfaces designed to replicate US highways.
Discover Hyundai’s new Safety Test & Investigation Laboratory, where production car defects are identified, corrected and improvements are integrated back into development, in the November 2023 edition of ATTI.
