Hyundai Motor UK has embedded five contactless payment points into a customised Hyundai IONIQ Electric vehicle, allowing passengers to donate £5 or £10 via a contactless payment in the car.
The car is the start of a partnership between the manufacturer and the charity ‘Stand Up To Cancer’, and money donated to the car will be used to fund ‘translational research’ which helps to turn breakthroughs in the lab into revolutionary treatments for cancer.
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The so called ‘contactless car’ is the result of collaboration between Hyundai and specialist technology and fabrication partners.
The payment points were made with Ardunio micro-controllers and Raspberry Pi micro-computers to ensure that the car reacts instantaneously to each and every contactless donation. The contactless readers will be embedded seamlessly into the panels of the IONIQ vehicle and will be adapted to co-ordinate with the bespoke LED totaliser that will be built into the front and rear number plates.
Members of the public will be able to see the Contactless Car for the first time at a launch event on 22 May 2017 inside King’s Cross station, London. Following its launch, it will be driven across the UK appearing at a number of Hyundai and Stand Up To Cancer events between May and November 2017
Tony Whitehorn, president and chief executive officer of Hyundai UK said: “Cancer doesn’t discriminate; one in two people born after 1960 will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lifetime. But our world-first Contactless Car will be designed to make joining the rebellion against cancer as easy, convenient, and as engaging as possible. I hope that people will come together, with their cards at the ready, and give generously to such an important cause that will save lives across the UK.”
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By GlobalDataHyundai’s contactless car is another example of automotive manufacturers looking at ways of making in car payments more convenient. In February, Jaguar launched an in car app, allowing customers to pay for fuel at Shell via the cars touch screens.
