“It should be the year when a major transformation is achieved as a new growth engine in 2021”
Electric vehicle platform E-GMP-based product full-scale, eco-friendly leader
Electric vehicles launch 23 models in 2025…Sold 1 million units annually worldwide
[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Ki-rak = Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Eui-sun Eui-sun presented’Safe and Free Movement and Peaceful Life’ as the group’s mission. To this end, Chairman Chung expressed his strong will, saying that this year should be the year when a great transformation into a new growth engine will take place.
On the 4th, Chairman Chung sent a New Year’s message to the global group’s executives and employees by e-mail. I am going out.”
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| [서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Jeong Il-gu = Hyundai Motor Group Senior Vice Chairman Eui-sun Eui-sun is giving a New Year’s speech at the 2020 Hyundai Motor Group New Year’s Party held at Hyundai Motor headquarters in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 2nd. 2020.01.02 [email protected] |
◆ New challenges this year…Eco-friendly, future technology, business competitiveness performance visualization
Chairman Eui-sun Eui-seon said, “2021 should be the year of a’great transformation into a new growth engine’,” and expressed his determination to visualize achievements in the areas of ▲ eco-friendly ▲ future technology ▲ business competitiveness through new challenges and changes.
To this end, Chairman Chung presented the goal of a major transformation into a new growth engine, made it clear that he would join the group’s executives and employees on the journey to strengthen the group’s business competitiveness while expanding its dominance in the eco-friendly market and securing future technology capabilities.
Specifically, in order to expand its dominance in the eco-friendly market, Chairman Eui-sun Eui emphasized, “We will solidify our position as a leading global eco-friendly (Tier 1) brand.” It is planning to further expand its competitiveness as an eco-friendly brand by reinforcing the competitiveness of various electric vehicles and hydrogen businesses that are expected to be released this year.
Chairman Chung said, “With the launch of a new car based on the recently announced electric vehicle platform E-GMP, we plan to provide an attractive eco-friendly transportation method that reflects the diverse tastes and needs of customers at a more reasonable price, as well as more convenient and safer.” .
Chairman Jeong encouraged executives and staff members, “A great transformation into a new growth engine is possible only when we all work together,” and “If our hearts and capabilities are combined, we will be able to wisely overcome the crisis and use it as a new growth opportunity.”
In addition, the executives and employees evaluated that “Hyundai Motor Group has been greatly loved by the market and customers, and achieved a result of expanding its global market position and increasing corporate value even in a difficult situation with great anxiety and concerns caused by Corona 19.”
Chairman Chung predicted that “in the post-corona era, as social values and lifestyles different from the existing ones are spreading, only companies that have prepared for change in advance are expected to survive and grow.”
Along with this, he stressed, “We must make full preparations to become the first mover of a new era, taking 2021 as an important inflection point that will determine future growth.”
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| [서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Ki-rak Kim = Rendered image of IONIQ brand product lineup (Ioniq 6, Ioniq 7, Ioniq 5 from left) [사진=현대차] 2020.08.10 [email protected] |
◆ Launch of electric vehicles such as Ionic 5… spurs the creation of a hydrogen ecosystem
Regarding the hydrogen field, Chairman Eui-sun Eui said, “Hydrogen fuel cells, which are recognized as the world’s best technology, are expanded to a variety of mobility and industrial power sources based on the brand’HTWO’, which means’hydrogen for humanity’, and I will take the lead in realizing neutrality.”
The Hyundai Motor Group will be reborn as a global electric vehicle powerhouse by launching E-GMP-applied electric vehicles such as Kia’s semi-mid-sized electric vehicles and Genesis crossover electric vehicles, starting with Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 this year.
E-GMP is designed with an optimized structure only for electric vehicles, so it can drive more than 500km (domestic standard) with a single charge, and 80% charging is possible within 18 minutes when using an ultra-fast charger with an 800V charging system.
The Hyundai Motor Group plans to expand its electric vehicle lineup from 8 models to 23 models in 2025 and sell 1 million units a year in the global market.
It will also accelerate the construction of electric vehicle infrastructure. The Hyundai Motor Group will directly install 20 high-speed charging stations in Korea by 2021, and expand the charging network further in cooperation with energy companies. In the case of overseas, it will have an electric vehicle charging infrastructure suitable for each market situation and characteristics with various partners, including’IONITY’, a European company specializing in building ultra-high-speed charging infrastructure, which has been strategically invested by Hyundai Motor Group.
It also spurs the creation of a hydrogen ecosystem. It will expand the supply of hydrogen fuel cell systems with the world’s best technology to power sources for ships, generators, and trains as well as global automakers. A new hydrogen energy business brand’HTWO (H2, Hydrogen + Humanity)’, which was recently unveiled, is also part of this.
At the same time, through strategic partnerships with hydrogen, energy, and logistics companies around the world, it is also taking the lead in related hydrogen business. It will also focus on developing next-generation hydrogen fuel cell systems that are applied to future eco-friendly mobility such as urban aviation mobility (UAM).
Regarding securing future technology capabilities, Chairman Chung emphasized, “We will dominate the future market by continuously expanding investments in new technologies for free movement and peaceful life.”
Chairman Eui-sun Eui added, “We will continue to invest in new growth fields such as UAM and robotics, and we will thoroughly prepare to expand the area of new mobility in the near future.”
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| [고양=뉴스핌] Reporter Jeong Il-koo = Prime Minister Sye-gyun Jeong, Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Seong Yun-mo, Chairman of Korea Automobile Industry Association and Chairman of Hydrogen Mobility + Show Organizing Committee Chairman Eui-sun Eui-sun of Hyundai Motor Company at the ‘2020 Hydrogen Mobility + Show’ held at KINTEX, Goyang City, Gyeonggi-do on the afternoon of the 1st. We are looking at Hyundai Motor’s Urban Aviation Mobility (UAM) S-A1. 2020.07.01 [email protected] |
◆ Level 4 unmanned autonomous driving test…Speed even in UAM development
The Hyundai Motor Group will apply Level 3 level of partial autonomous driving technology to mass-produced cars in 2022, and promote autonomous driving commercialization service projects such as robo taxis in 2023.
Hyundai Motor Group is conducting Level 4 unmanned autonomous driving tests on public roads in Nevada through the autonomous driving joint venture’Motional’, and in 2023, it will provide self-driving commercialization services with the US vehicle sharing company’Lyft’. It is implemented in major regions of the United States.
Focus on next-generation software core technologies. Hyundai Motor Group plans to provide the best convenience and safety to customers with vehicle software that closely interacts with vehicle driving assistance, precision map-linked navigation, and various connected and infotainment services.
It also accelerates the development of a UAM (Urban Air Mobility) product line that covers both the passenger and freight markets.
The Hyundai Motor Group started with the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for cargo equipped with a hybrid powertrain in 2026, a fully electric UAM model optimized for urban operation in 2028, and connected adjacent cities in the 2030s. Local aviation mobility products are launched.
In the robotics field, we are actively responding to the global mega trend symbolized by aging and uncontact, in partnership with’Boston Dynamics inc.’, which recently signed a stake acquisition contract, while providing a higher level of experience and value beyond expectations to humanity. to provide.
Hyundai Motor Group’s wearable robot technology, production and logistics automation technology are expected to maximize synergies by combining Boston Dynamics’ innovative capabilities. Hyundai Motor Group is building a leading position by incorporating robotics technology into various mobility fields such as autonomous driving, UAM, and purpose-based mobility (PBV).
Chairman Chung also emphasized strengthening the group’s business competitiveness. He explained, “We will rationalize the group’s business portfolio and lay the foundation for sustainable growth of the group by continuously discovering new growth engines that meet the paradigm shift of the industry.”
The Hyundai Motor Group is a strategy to strengthen future business capabilities through specialization of key parts and software for electrification and autonomous driving by each group company, and to actively explore new growth engines such as new and renewable energy business as well as smart city development.
In addition, Chairman Eui-seon Eui said, “Quality and safety are not specific tasks in a specific area,” and “All the executives and employees of the group, and all of our partners, think and unite together to ensure that quality and safety are not compromised with anything else. When we pursue it, our customers can trust us.”