Your car,
at a glance
ORBITA CAR tells you how your Hyundai, Kia or Genesis is doing in three seconds. And when a value does not exist, it says so — instead of making one up.
Electric, plug-in hybrid, hybrid, petrol, diesel or hydrogen. What it runs on is not the point.
The rule that governs everything
Understand in 3 seconds
Not a marketing line: a criterion we check with real people. The screen is shown for three seconds, hidden, and three questions are asked. If fewer than four out of five people get all three right, the screen is redesigned.
Look at the screen for three seconds and answer without looking again.
- 1Is the car OK?
- 2How much battery does it have?
- 3Do you need to do anything?
Answers: yes, it is fine · 78 % · no, nothing.
This screen passed with 5 out of 5 people. It took four versions to get there.
What it does
The questions that actually matter
Not an endless feature list, but answers to what a driver actually wonders every day. This is what we are building — it is not available yet.
How much is left
Battery, fuel tank, or both if your car plugs in. With a home-screen widget and, while charging, live tracking and the time it will be ready — so you never need to open the app.
What it really costs
The cost of every charge or fill-up and of the month, using your real prices. If your car plugs in, also how much of the month ran on electricity and how much did not — the figure that really says whether it pays off.
Vehicle status
Dashboard alerts, tyres, locks, oil levels and servicing. Every alert says what is happening, what it means and what to do — never a lone symbol to decipher.
Trips and range
Your real consumption, not the brochure figure. And the answer to the usual question: will I make it? With the likely margin, not false precision.
ORBITA AI
Ask anything from any screen. It answers with your car’s real data, citing where each figure comes from and when it was taken.
Where you parked
The last known position of the car, with its timestamp. And if you would rather it was not stored, it turns off in one tap.
The difference
Every figure says where it comes from
A car does not publish everything we would like to know. The easy thing would be to fill the gaps with an estimate and present it as a measurement. ORBITA CAR does not: every figure carries its source and its age, and what does not exist is stated.
Four marks, always the same, across the whole app. The full legend is one tap away.
A real example: we went through the data the connected-car platform publishes, one field at a time, and battery health is not among it. We would rather say so than estimate it.
Trust
What ORBITA CAR cannot do
Almost every app tells you what it accesses. This is the opposite: what we could not do even if we wanted to, because the connection to the vehicle is read-only.
Compatibility
The new generation of Hyundai, Kia and Genesis
ORBITA CAR is built for the models launching with the group’s new in-car system, starting with the IONIQ 3. The powertrain makes no difference; the system does.
Which cars
The ones running the group’s new in-car system. The IONIQ 3 is the first in Europe; the rest of the Hyundai, Kia and Genesis range will follow.
Powertrains
Electric, plug-in hybrid, hybrid, petrol, diesel and hydrogen. Each shows its own: an electric car talks about charging; a diesel, about oil and servicing.
Countries
34 European countries, Spain included. Launch market: Spain.
On the phone and in the car
Two surfaces, one product: the app on your phone and another on the vehicle screen. That is why the in-car system matters more than the model.
If your car is older, not yet. A current IONIQ 5, KONA or TUCSON does not run this system, and we would rather tell you here than let you find out after installing the app. Available information also varies by model: ORBITA CAR will tell you exactly what yours can report before you start using it.
What it will cost
Knowing how your car is doing will be free
We have not settled the price yet, but we have settled one thing we will not change: you do not pay to see the state of your own vehicle.
Free, always
Current vehicle status, safety alerts, battery, charging and the home-screen widgets.
Charging you to find out whether your car is fine strikes us as indefensible. Putting a paywall on an important alert, plainly dangerous.
Paid, if it is worth it to you
The intelligence that builds up over time: deep history, reports, consumption analysis, multiple vehicles.
With two rules: cancelling will take the same number of taps as subscribing, and there will never be fake countdowns or surprise charges.
How it is built
Made so that anyone understands it
A modern car already carries enough acronyms. The app should not add difficulty on top.
No jargon
Where others write “SOC” or “DTE”, we write “battery” and “range”. The technical term is still there, one level deeper, for whoever wants it.
Nothing depends on colour
Every state carries an icon and a word, not just a hue. We measured the palette contrast and tested it with colour-blindness simulation.
Nine languages
Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese and Turkish from the start, reviewed by native speakers.
Accessibility target: WCAG 2.2 level AA, with screen-reader support and text scaling up to 200 %.
Questions
Frequently asked
Which cars does it work with?
Hyundai, Kia and Genesis models launching with the group’s new in-car system — the IONIQ 3 is the first in Europe — in 34 European countries, Spain included. Any powertrain: electric, plug-in hybrid, hybrid, petrol, diesel or hydrogen.
I have an IONIQ 5 (or a KONA, or a TUCSON). Will it work?
Not yet. Those models run the previous generation of the in-car system. ORBITA CAR is built on the new one, which arrives with the IONIQ 3 and will spread across the range. We would rather say so before you install anything.
Can it open or start my car?
No. The connection is read-only: ORBITA CAR reads the vehicle status but cannot send it commands of any kind.
Do you see my manufacturer password?
No. Sign-in happens on the manufacturer’s systems. ORBITA CAR never sees or stores that password.
Why do some values show as “not available”?
Because not all vehicles publish the same data, and some data no vehicle publishes. When a value does not exist we say so, rather than showing an estimate dressed up as a measurement.
Do you sell my data?
No. Vehicle data is used only to show it to you. It is not sold or shared for advertising, and you can revoke access at any time.
What will it cost?
The price is not settled yet, but seeing the state of your own car and receiving its safety alerts will always be free. Anything paid, if there is any, will be the analysis that builds up over time.
Is the data instant?
Not always. The car sends its state every so often, not continuously. That is why ORBITA CAR shows the time of the last reading received: so you know whether you are looking at something from a minute ago or from three hours ago.
When will it be available?
There is no date yet. We would rather not give one we cannot keep: when we have it, it will be published here. The first market will be Spain. If you want us to let you know, write to contacto@orbitacar.com.
When it is ready
Want us to let you know?
Write to us and we will tell you when ORBITA CAR can be used. No newsletters, no promotions: one email, the day it ships.
Write to contacto@orbitacar.com