SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday it will begin the sale of the Staria minivan in Thailand this week as it strives to increase its presence in Southeast Asian markets. Hyundai also plans to begin introducing the Staria minivan in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia in the third quarter, a company [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group’s eco-friendly vehicle sales in South Korea jumped nearly 40 percent in the first half of this year compared with a year earlier on strong demand for hybrid models and new electric vehicles, its sales data showed Sunday. The combined domestic sales of eco-friendly models by the [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday its fleets of Xcient fuel cell trucks have surpassed 1 million kilometers of driving since they hit the roads in Switzerland nearly a year ago. Hyundai Motor has shipped a total of 46 Xcient heavy-duty truck trucks to the European nation [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. said Friday their combined sales jumped 44 percent in the United States last month from a year earlier on strong demand for their SUVs. Hyundai and Kia sold 140,951 vehicles in the U.S. in June, up from 98,005 units in the [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. is moving toward electric vehicles to join the global automotive trend, but its workers at the leading automaker fret over the prospect of less assembly work and want job security in the changing business environment. Hyundai Motor’s labor union is girding for a battle after it [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co., in celebration of the company’s purchase of U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics Inc., revealed a video of K-pop icon BTS dancing with Spot, a maneuverable dog-like robot. The company revealed on Tuesday a video titled ‘Welcome to the Family with BTS’, in which BTS, the company’s [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, is joining the metaverse, a virtual environment where users interact through digital avatars. The company announced that it will offer virtual test drives of the Sonata N Line on metaverse platform Zepeto. The N Line brand sits between Hyundai’s high-performance [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Cumulative electric vehicle (EV) sales in Europe from South Korea’s two largest automakers — Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. — have surpassed 200,000 units, company data showed Sunday. Hyundai and Kia, both under Hyundai Motor Group, had sold a combined 227,919 EVs in the European auto market as [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. emerged as the top auto seller in Vietnam in the first five months of this year, outpacing its Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp., industry data showed Thursday. Hyundai Motor sold 24,420 units in the Southeast Asian nation in the January-May period, edging [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group is on its way toward an all-electric future by adopting a two-track strategy to deliver batteries for both electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, hoping to expand its presence in the growing eco-friendly car market. The world’s fifth-largest carmaker is one of the few industry players [...]