SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s Kona Electric vehicle has set a Guinness world record for the highest altitude achieved in an electric car, the company said Friday. The Kona Electric built in Hyundai Motor’s Indian plant reached the Saula Himal peak that is 5,731 meters high, beating the previous record height [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said Thursday they have invested US$110 million in the U.K.-based electric vehicle startup Arrival as part of their future mobility strategy. Hyundai and Kia have made the investment to jointly develop electric commercial vehicles, such as vans and buses, for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Subsidies offered by different levels of government to prompt the sales and expand the supply of electric vehicles (EVs) are being abused. This is because the subsidy provided per EV paid by local governments is different, and the number of vehicles supported is different. Therefore, a growing number of [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday it will allocate more money to foster the eco-friendly automobile market this year in a long-term plan to have such cars take up a quarter of all car exports by 2030. To further foster the segment, South Korea said it will allocate 950 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Electricfied models reached over 40 percent of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp.’s environmentally friendly vehicle sales in the January-October period, an automobile association said Monday. In the first 10 months, Hyundai and Kia sold a combined 291,237 eco-friendly models in global markets, according to the data from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean exports of electric vehicles (EVs) more than doubled in the first 10 months of this year on brisk demand from advanced markets, data showed Monday. The country’s overseas shipments of EVs were valued at US$2.57 billion in the January-October period, up a whopping 103.3 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault S.A on Thursday began to export the Twizy electric car produced in South Korea to help revive sales of its Korean unit. In October, Renault Samsung Motors Corp. started the Twizy’s production at its sole plant in Busan, and the first batch of 142 Twizys will be shipped [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government offers subsidies when citizens decide to buy eco-friendly vehicles. However, 3 out of every 10 government-supported vehicles are second cars. In an annual parliamentary audit conducted by the Ministry of Environment Wednesday, Rep. Jeon Hyun-hee of the ruling Democratic Party said that the public tends to have [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s biggest automotive group, said Monday it has invested in Europe’s largest fast electric vehicle (EV) charging service provider to further push up sales of its battery-powered cars in the continent. The group, which owns Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp., signed a deal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to develop standards to prevent data error between an electric vehicle (EV) and a recharging station as new technology has enabled a single charger to recharge two EVs simultaneously. The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) will hold the 2019 Electric Vehicle Interoperability Testival, a [...]