Hyundai Motor Company’s Ioniq 5, expected to disrupt mass production due to difficult agreement on the number of production lines

Input 2021.03.02 16:03 | Revision 2021.03.02 16:16

Hyundai Motor Company (005380)With the labor-management agreement on the number of production line inputs (Man Hour) ahead of mass production of’Ioniq 5′, the first dedicated electric vehicle of the company, it is expected that the mass production plan will also be disrupted.

According to Hyundai Motor Company on the 2nd, the labor and management have not yet finished the bare-hour negotiations at Ulsan Plant 1, which produces Ioniq 5. Initially, the mass production period for Hyundai Motor Company for European sales was planned to start from this month, and Hyundai Motor plans to start mass production internally from mid-month this month, but the start of mass production has been delayed due to differences of opinion between labor and management.

The labor-management conflict occurred when the number of manpower required for the electric vehicle production line was reduced compared to that of the existing internal combustion locomotive production. Unlike the powertrain (dynamometer) of the internal combustion locomotive that was previously produced, the electric vehicle platform applied to the IONIQ 5 has fewer exhaust lines and wires, which inevitably reduces the number of inputs.

Hyundai Motor Company applied the electric vehicle exclusive platform (E-GMP), which is an internal combustion locomotive powertrain (power transmission mechanism), for the first time in Ioniq 5. will be.

In addition, as Hyundai Motor Company’s Ulsan Plant 1 installed a dedicated electric vehicle line, the number of units produced per hour was slightly lowered, and it is known that the number of personnel input due to the reduction of parts by 30% compared to the previous one is expected. Previously, the labor and management started producing platform modules for electric vehicles. Hyundai Mobis (012330)At the end of January this year, the operation of the 1st factory, which once produced the Ioniq 5 test vehicle, was stopped due to friction over the outsourcing left to the back.

The issue of module outsourcing has been narrowed down by the labor and management to work partly within the Ulsan plant, but discussions are still underway over the man-hour. An official from Hyundai Motors said, “We are currently in the last minute coordination with respect to man-hours,” and said, “We will do our best to deliver vehicles to customers on time.

On the 25th of last month, as a result of receiving a pre-contract with IONIQ 5 for 3,000 units in Europe, more than three times the amount of the corresponding amount of 10,000 people gathered and succeeded in’complete sale’ in one day. The domestic pre-contract also recorded 23,760 units on the first day alone.