Ettifos, a domestic V2X (vehicle-to-everything) specialist, said on the 11th it signed a contract after being selected as an equipment supplier for a V2X infrastructure buildout project commissioned by Maricopa County, Arizona.
The project is being carried out as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's "Saving Lives with Connectivity–A Plan to Accelerate V2X Deployment" policy.
The U.S. federal government has prepared a roadmap to build V2X infrastructure nationwide by 2036 and, for that purpose, selected three priority states—Arizona, Texas and Utah—injecting a total budget of $60 million.
Among them, Ettifos was chosen as the key equipment supplier for the Arizona project. The company said this contract is the first case in which a domestic company won a public V2X project commissioned by the U.S. federal and state governments.
To win this order, Ettifos focused on meeting U.S. public market bidding requirements. The company obtained V2X equipment interoperability certification (OmniAir Consortium) and complied with the Build America, Buy America Act. It also established a local U.S. technical support system, meeting the participation requirements for public projects.
Hong Seung-soo, head of business at Ettifos who oversaw the project, said, "Over the past several years, we have prepared companywide to enter the U.S. public sector V2X market, from marketing activities to product certification, local production and support system establishment," adding, "building on this order, we plan to expand the market to major state-level projects in California, Georgia and Ohio."
Ettifos plans to successfully carry out this project to prove the competitiveness of Korea's V2X technology and move to expand its market share globally.