Hyundai Motor Company is responding to growing demand for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) by producing HEVs at its U.S. electric vehicle factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA), which is scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2024.“We will begin to run HMGMA in October,” said L
After years of double-digit growth, the global electric vehicle market is entering a chasm, considered to be a slowdown in demand just before mass adoption. Global automakers that have been aggressively investing to expand their electric vehicle lineups are scrambling for survival by making use of a
Hybrid cars overtook gasoline cars for the first time in the imported car market in Korea in the first quarter of this year.According to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association, hybrid vehicles accounted for 47.5 percent (25,908 units) of newly registered imported cars from January
Domestic sales and exports of electric vehicles plummeted in the first quarter of 2024, while sales of hybrid vehicles ballooned. The analysis is that hybrid vehicles, which are more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly, are becoming a substitute as electric vehicles have fallen into a chasm
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on April 11 that a research team led by Professor Kang Jeong-gu from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has developed a high-energy, high-power hybrid sodium-ion battery capable of rapid charging.Hybrid energy
Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp. have decided to use lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries produced by Indian companies in their customized electric vehicle models for the Indian market. Localizing batteries that account for 40 percent of the cost of producing electric vehicles is a way to lower prices
Artificial Intelligence (AI), deep partner collaboration, and building a strong ecosystem foundation were championed as next-level growth engines to new opportunities in industry digitisation at the recent Huawei Cloud APAC Partner Connection Summit 2024.Huawei Cloud Asia Pacific hosted approximatel
In February, automobile exports, production, and domestic sales declined from the same month of 2023 and the previous month of January.The descent was attributable to a slowdown in the growth of electric vehicle sales in both the Korean and overseas markets, as well as a drop in production and shipp
Renault Korea Motors plans to invest 700 billion won to transform its Busan plant into a future car production base. Discussions are also underway with the French Renault Group headquarters to increase the investment scale to around 1.5 trillion won by 2027.On March 18, Renault Korea Motors exchange
Kwak Hyung-chan, the manager of the Automotive Optics Team at Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ Optical Communication Solutions Division, discussed the competitive edge of Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ camera module business during a technology briefing held on March 14. He highlighted the company’s “independ
The author is an analyst for NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at dongyang.kim@nhqv.com -- Ed.At AGMs this year, the spread of shareholder proposals, which has been a global trend since 2023, is to continue. As Korea’s dividend system improvements roll out in earnest, more companies are
Hanwha Aerospace announced on Feb. 29 that it has submitted a bid proposal on the US Army’s Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (S–MET) Increment II program.An Anduril-led S-MET Project consortium also includes Hanwha Aerospace and Forterra, an unmanned vehicle developer.Anduril is a defense tech
General Motors (GM) is considering investing to build a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) production facility at its Bupyeong plant in Incheon, Korea.GM is considering investing in the construction of a PHEV facility at its Bupyeong plant, according to sources in the automobile industry on Feb.
Hyundai Motor Group which runs Hyundai Motor, Kia Corp. and Genesis sold a total of 7.34 million vehicles globally in 2023, ranking third in sales, according sources in the automobile industry. This marked the second consecutive year that the group has ranked among the big three.Toyota Group, with b
Global electric vehicle registrations, excluding those in China, crossed 5.5 million units in 2023, marking a growth rate of 30 percent. Hyundai and Kia also fared well, ranking fourth in global deliveries.About 5,648,000 electric vehicles were registered globally in 2023, excluding those China, up
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) announced that a voluntary recall will start for about 40,000 vehicles from Hyundai Motor Company, Mercedes-Benz Korea, BMW Korea, Honda Korea, and Man Truck Bus Korea for manufacturing defects.According to MOLIT on Feb. 8, 18,664 Hyundai K
Despite a slowdown in the growth of electric vehicles, it was revealed that the usage of electric vehicle batteries increased by 38.6 percent last year compared a year earlier. Chinese companies CATL and BYD jointly secured the top two positions in the global market. The market share of South Korea’
U.S. General Motors (GM) Chairwoman Mary Barra will visit South Korea to meet with battery partners -- LG Energy Solutions and Samsung SDI -- on Feb. 7. Barra has made several unofficial visits to South Korea since taking office as chairwoman in 2016, but this is the first time she has officially co
The global leading automotive company Toyota, which has been embroiled in a “quality certification fraud” scandal, announced a record-breaking net profit of 4.5 trillion yen, equivalent to 40.2 trillion won or US$30.28 billion, for the fiscal year 2023, spanning from April 2023 to March 2024. The pr
LIG Nex1 is set to participate in the “UMEX 2024” exhibition, focused on robotics and unmanned technologies, beingheld in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, from Jan. 23 for a duration of three days.The company will showcase locally optimized robot and unmanned systems at the UMEX 2024 exhibition,