- Hyundai Motor Group during a meeting for the new year with employees said it will accelerate a wider transition to electric vehicles (EV) this year with the aim to morph into a future mobility solutions provider.
- The group plans to begin launching most of its new vehicles as “software-defined vehicles” (SDVs) in global markets in 2025.
On Tuesday, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group during a meeting for the new year with employees said it will accelerate a wider transition to electric vehicles (EV) this year with the aim to morph into a future mobility solutions provider. The group’s Executive Chair Euisun Chung said the company will gain a bigger share in the global EV market and generate a new growth driver in autonomous driving, future mobility and robotics in 2023.
Chung said; “The company will make an aggressive investment to hire proven talents in new-growth business sectors and develop new technologies to become the first mover that leads the future mobility market. Last year, Hyundai Motor Co.’s IONIQ 5 won the 2022 World Car of the Year and Kia Corp.’s EV6 was named the 2022 European Car of the Year. It marked the beginning of the group’s “successful” shift to electrification.”
In autonomous driving, the group plans to launch a Level 3 car, which allows lane changes and other autonomous driving functions to work without intervention from the driver in the domestic market this year. At Level 4, a vehicle can drive itself under limited conditions and will not operate if all required conditions are not satisfied. At Level 5, a vehicle’s automated driving features can drive under any conditions.
The group plans to begin launching most of its new vehicles as “software-defined vehicles” (SDVs) in global markets in 2025 and aims to regularly update the performance and function of all vehicles to be sold globally in the same year.
As for business environments, the executive chair said the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising interest rates and prices, volatile exchange rates and geopolitical risks, such as the Russia-Ukraine war, remain major worries for carmakers.