Handprints of children affected by cancer, doctors, and Hyundai representatives adorn a vehicle, symbolizing a shared fight for a cure. A powerful message of courage and hope. #CancerAwareness #Hope #ChildhoodCancer #Hyundai

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When a company provides funding for care, research, and hospital needs, it significantly lightens the burden for families, doctors, and children. It's a powerful message: 'You are not fighting alone.' Healing extends beyond just medical treatment. #HospitalSupport #CommunityImpact #HealthcareFunding #CorporateGiving

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For families, hope is the next appointment, scan, or treatment. For doctors and researchers, it's the behind-the-scenes work, long hours, and the unwavering belief that tomorrow's care will surpass today's. #MedicalHope #CancerResearch #HealthcareInnovation #PatientCare

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This hand should hold crayons and baseball gloves, not scans and hospital rooms. It's a symbol of hope, reminding families they aren't fighting alone. Healing is more than medical. #Hope #HealingJourney #PatientCare #FamilySupport

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A single handprint tells a powerful story. Since 1998, Hyundai Hope On Wheels has funded research and care, fighting childhood cancer for a brighter future. Every child deserves a chance to play, not face hospital rooms. #ChildhoodCancer #HopeOnWheels #CancerResearch #PediatricCancer #Hyundai

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Genesis invests in communities through the Inspiration Fund, supporting cancer research and vital music education programs like Songbird Music School. Because healing is more than medical—it's community. #Genesis #CommunityImpact #CancerResearch #MusicEducation #SongbirdMusic

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For years, Hyundai and Genesis have donated over $300 million to children's hospitals, pediatric cancer research, family support, and arts/education. Cars are driving community healing, learning, and growth. #Hyundai #Genesis #CommunityImpact #Philanthropy #ChildrensHospitals

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Every Hyundai or Genesis sold in America helps tell a bigger story — one that reaches far beyond the driveway.

In this episode, Nik Miles visits Rady Children’s Health Orange County, formerly CHOC, where Hyundai, Hyundai Hope on Wheels, and Genesis are putting real money back into local communities. Through charitable programs connected to vehicle sales, Hyundai and Genesis have helped donate more than $300 million over the years to children’s hospitals, pediatric cancer research, family support programs, and arts education.

At Rady Children’s Health Orange County, Hyundai and Hyundai Hope on Wheels are presenting $500,000 to support pediatric health and cancer care. That includes $100,000 from Hyundai to help the hospital meet its greatest needs and $400,000 from Hyundai Hope on Wheels to support pediatric cancer programs, including a Young Investigator Grant aimed at helping advance future research and treatment breakthroughs.

But this story is about more than a check. It is about children, parents, doctors, nurses, researchers, and families facing some of the hardest days of their lives. It is also about the unforgettable Hyundai Hope on Wheels handprint ceremony, where children affected by cancer, doctors, researchers, hospital leaders, and Hyundai representatives place handprints on a vehicle as a powerful symbol of courage, hope, and the continued fight for a cure.

The giving does not stop there.

Through the Genesis Inspiration Foundation, Genesis is also supporting children through the arts, including a $10,000 donation to Songbird Music School. For kids in schools without music programs, that support can mean confidence, creativity, expression, and a place to belong.

One part of this story is about cancer research. Another is about music education. Underneath both is the same idea: Hyundai and Genesis are using car sales to put money back into the communities where people live, work, buy cars, raise children, and hope for something better.

Today, hope left a handprint — and maybe even found a song.

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#Hyundai #Genesis #HyundaiHopeOnWheels #GenesisInspirationFoundation #RadyChildrens #ChildhoodCancerAwareness #PediatricCancerResearch #CarNews #TestMiles #NikMiles

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Mercedes-Benz has built an all-electric luxury van with close to 400 miles of projected range, and I drove it for the first time in Bilbao, Spain.

This is the Mercedes-Benz VLE, a new electric people-mover that Mercedes calls a “Grand Limousine.” Yes, it has sliding doors. Yes, it is technically a van. But after spending time behind the wheel and in the rear seat, the bigger question is whether America’s obsession with giant luxury SUVs is about to look a little silly.

The VLE is designed around comfort, silence, access, space, and long-range electric travel. With seating for up to eight, rear-axle steering, AIRMATIC air suspension, an 800-volt charging system, and projected range close to 400 miles, this could become the ultimate airport shuttle, hotel transport, executive vehicle, family luxury hauler, or black-car alternative.

In this first drive review, I look at why the Mercedes-Benz VLE matters, how it compares to an Escalade-style luxury SUV, why electric power makes so much sense for chauffeured transport, and whether America is ready to accept that the most luxurious vehicle may not be an SUV at all.

Is the Mercedes VLE the future of luxury travel, or just a very expensive electric van with excellent manners?

Watch the full review and decide for yourself.

#MercedesVLE #MercedesBenz #ElectricVan #LuxuryEV #TestMiles

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