SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s Grandeur sedan has led South Korea’s hybrid car market in terms of sales throughout most of 2023, industry data showed Friday. According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association, Grandeur’s hybrid variant sold 57,107 units during the January-November period of this year, representing 198.8 percent sales growth [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s leading car maker, has decided to end operations of its parts forging plants in Ulsan, according to industry sources Thursday. The company plans to end operations of two forging plants in Ulsan, about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, with one closing in January and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, said Thursday it will reveal its future blueprint for hydrogen energy, software and artificial intelligence at next month’s CES 2024. Hyundai Motor shared a teaser image for its media event scheduled to be held Jan. 8 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, said Tuesday it decided to sell its Russian manufacturing plant, which has been suspended due to the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war. The company said in a regulatory filing that the sale of Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus LLC in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was approved in an extraordinary board meeting held earlier in the day. The board also decided to sell General Motors [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top carmaker, said Sunday it will join hands with the United Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund as part of efforts to strengthen its presence in the eco-friendly and future mobility market. Under the memorandum of understanding, Hyundai Motor and Mubadala Investment Co. will cooperate [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Euisun Chung, chairman of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, has been named the auto industry’s leader of the year by U.S. magazine Automotive News, according to the group on Monday. Chung was given the most prestigious honor among 38 key figures within the global automotive industry included in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s leading automaker, said Thursday it has partnered with University College London (UCL) to pursue joint research projects involving carbon-neutral future technologies. Under a memorandum of understanding signed in London on Wednesday (local time), Hyundai and UCL will cooperate in areas of research and development [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) –Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, is expected to post the biggest operating profit among local listed firms in 2023, outstripping perennial leader Samsung Electronics Co., a corporate tracker said Thursday. Samsung Electronics has remained atop the operating income list since 2009, but its operating income is forecast to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday it has launched a campaign to promote South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo at this week’s summit gathering of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco. Hyundai said it will mobilize custom-designed units of its electrified Ioniq 5, [...]
ULSAN, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a dedicated electrical vehicle (EV) manufacturing plant in the country’s southeastern industrial city of Ulsan, with a goal of producing 200,000 vehicles annually, starting in 2026. Hyundai will spend 2 trillion won ($1.51 billion) to build [...]