SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of Hyundai Motor Co.’s Kona Electric have lost a lawsuit against the automaker for a series of fires caused by battery issues. The Seoul Central District Court has ruled in favor of Hyundai in a compensation lawsuit filed by 173 Kona EV owners against the automaker. A series [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Customers are up in arms as a recall of Hyundai Motor Co.’s Kona EV, which sparked controversy over safety following a series of fires, is being delayed. Since March, the company was found to have recalled only 36 percent of 25,083 Kona EVs in the country. At this speed, [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. has stopped the production of the Kona Electric for the domestic market in a move to phase out the model undergoing recalls over battery fires and shift its focus to Ioniq 5 EVs, company officials said Wednesday. The Kona EV is Hyundai’s bestselling EV model launched [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About 100 owners of Hyundai Motor Co.’s Kona electric vehicle (EV), for which the South Korean carmaker recently made a recall following a string of fires, are set to file a second class action lawsuit by the end of this month. The Kona EV owners plan to submit a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of 170 owners of Kona Electric model has sued Hyundai Motor Co. for a series of fires accidents that has tarnished the model’s reputation and lowered the vehicle’s overall value. The group submitted the lawsuit to Seoul Central District Court last week, calling on the company to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s planned global recall of 77,000 Kona Electric vehicles may be a drag on the company’s electrification plan, analysts said Monday. Hyundai Motor plans to voluntarily recall 77,000 Kona Electric models for a faulty battery cell component, as 14 cases of fires in the model — 10 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. has decided to voluntarily recall its Kona all-electric models sold overseas, industry insiders said Sunday, after the automaker vowed to take the same step on the home turf over potential battery fire risks. Hyundai will globally recall some 77,000 Kona Electric models manufactured between September 2017 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. will voluntarily recall over 25,000 Kona all-electric models for a faulty battery cell component, the transport ministry said Thursday. Hyundai will recall 25,564 Kona Electric models manufactured between Sept. 29, 2019, and March 13, 2020, as a possible short circuit in the faulty battery cell system [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker, on Thursday unveiled the electric version of its Kona subcompact sport utility vehicle (SUV) in a stepped-up drive to diversify its lineup with environmentally friendly vehicles. Amid the rapid growth in the domestic electric vehicle market in recent years, Hyundai Motor is [...]