SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. said Thursday they will expand a self-driving ride-hailing pilot service in Seoul’s Gangnam neighborhood as a way to further upgrade their complete self-driving technology. In collaboration with Kakao Mobility Corp., more vehicles will be added to the pilot RoboRide autonomous service, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Tuesday it has signed an initial pact with a Chinese investment bank to push forward its commercial car business in the world’s biggest automobile market. Hyundai Motor Group China has signed a memorandum of understanding with the CICC Capital Management (CCM) department, an affiliate of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean carmakers are placing a bigger focus on sales of high-end vehicles with higher margins as part of efforts to better cope with a possible decline in overall car sales resulting from the global economic slump. Hyundai Motor Co. saw its third-quarter sales jump by 30.6 percent year [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. topped sales charts in the global hydrogen vehicle market during the January-September period, a market research firm said Thursday. SNE Research reported that 14,400 hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) were sold worldwide in the nine-month period, up 10.1 percent from last year. Hyundai, led [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea jumped 35 percent last month from a year earlier despite the extended chip shortage, an industry association said Thursday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles stood at 25,363 units last month, up from 18,764 units a year ago, the Korea Automobile [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Wednesday its overall vehicle sales in the United States rose 7.9 percent last month from a year earlier despite the extended chip shortage. Hyundai Motor Co., its independent Genesis brand, and Hyundai’s smaller affiliate Kia Corp. sold a combined 123,233 vehicles in the world’s most [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group is agonizing over the Russian market amid the prolonged Ukraine war. Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. still remain silent about the potential of withdrawing from the Russian market. “The volatility of the Russian business could deepen and the Russian car market [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group on Monday unveiled the results of its study on the future of cities featuring an organic connection of mobility, logistics, energy and nature through a virtual exhibition. The group developed the HMG Smart City reference model in collaboration with HyunJoon Yoo Architects. The reference model offers [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Exports of passenger cars advanced 30.1 percent in the third quarter of the year from a year earlier, data showed Monday, on the back of growing demand for eco-friendly vehicles. Carmakers here shipped passenger cars worth a combined US$12.6 billion during the July-September period, up from $9.7 billion a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. on Friday opened up South Korea’s first moving hydrogen charging station in Seoul’s Gwangjin District. The mobile station is set up on top of a 25-ton Xcient hydrogen fuel-cell electric truck. It comes with all of the core facilities of a hydrogen fueling station — a [...]