Kia wins World's Greatest Auto Disruptors 2024
Kia Corp. won two categories of the Newsweek World’s Greatest Auto Disruptors Awards with the all-electric EV9 winning Research and Developmen...
Kia taps ex-BMW, Mercedes-Benz designers for China, Europe
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, has appointed former designers of German luxury carmakers BMW AG and Mercedes-Benz AG as chiefs of i...
Hyundai, Kia's European sales reach 79,000 units in February
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. reported a 2.3% rise in European sales in February, selling a combined total of 79,130 vehicles, according to data f...
Kia’s volume model EV3 to spearhead its electrification push: CEO
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Friday its upcoming volume electric model EV3 will spearhead the company’s el...
Hyundai Motor, Kia to recall 170,000 EVs
Around 170,000 units of electric vehicles (EVs) from Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are voluntarily recalled, the largest recall in the domestic EV...
Kia EV9 named UK Car of the Year 2024
Kia Corp. 's EV9, the signature large all-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) of South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, was named the UK Car of the...
Samsung Electro-Mechanics to supply hybrid camera lenses to Hyundai
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, plans to begin supplying hybrid lenses for automotive camera modules ...
Kia streamlines global sales service for EV transition
Kia Corp., a South Korean carmaker under Hyundai Motor Group, has drastically reorganized its global after-sales service operations to offer more sy...
Hyundai’s IONIQ 6: Most efficient electric vehicle in US
Hyundai Motor Co.'s electric sedan IONIQ 6 has been named the most energy-efficient vehicle in the US, further driving the South Korean automaker&rs...
Samsung flexes NAND muscle with high-capacity microSD cards
Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled two new microSD cards boasting high performance and capacity usually found in solid-state drives (SSDs...
Hyundai, Kia enjoy renewed popularity of LPG trucks Porter, Bongo
Many economists are trumpeting weak business conditions for the coming months. But an economic slowdown isn’t all that bad for Hyundai Motor C...
Kia Niro surpasses 1 million global sales
Kia Corp.'s Niro, a compact crossover SUV hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) model, has surpassed the 1 million global sales milestone since its first...
Hyundai to reignite Brazil’s mobility push with $1.1 billion investment
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Friday it will invest $1.1 billion in Brazil to reinvigorate the South American country&...
Hyundai, Kia aim to raise Indian sales after record output
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, aim to raise sales by 4.2% in India this year after logging record vehi...
Hyundai Motor Group in test run of dedicated EV plant in Korea
Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s No. 3 automaker, started a test operation of the first dedicated electric vehicle factory in South Korea to a...
Hyundai, Kia team up with KAIST on self-driving car sensor
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, have joined hands with the nation's top national research university to...
HMM, Hyundai Glovis aim for car shipping sector as rates jump
South Korea’s major ocean carriers HMM Co. and Hyundai Glovis Co. aim to take advantage of the booming car shipping business as vehicle freigh...
Kia Sportage reports best year in Europe, driven by hybrid models
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Tuesday the sale of its flagship compact sport utility vehicle Sportage reached a f...
China’s BYD to enter South Korea’s passenger electric car market
China’s BYD Co., the world’s largest electric vehicle maker, is set to enter South Korea’s passenger EV market, setting off alarm ...
Kia rides defense sector boom with military vehicles
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has unveiled its next-generation military vehicle technologies at the largest defense exhib...
Hyundai, Kia EV sales on a roll in US due to better style, pricing
Hyundai Motor Co. and its sibling Kia Corp. sold 6,627 units of electric vehicles together in the US last month, 51% more than a year ago as their d...
Samsung flexes AI chip muscles ahead of Altman visit
Samsung Electronics Co. will go all out to win the AI chip race with its most advanced AI memory chip products, its semiconductor business head said...
Hyundai Motor, Kia: S.Korea’s highest earners, Tesla’s biggest rival in US
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, became the country’s highest earners in 2023, buoyed by robust sa...
Kia posts record 2023 sales, profit with bold 2024 business targets
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday posted record 2023 profit and sales revenue, driven by strong sales of pricey m...
Hyundai Wia logs $780 mn in constant velocity joint orders
Hyundai Wia Corp., a South Korean automotive parts manufacturer, said on Wednesday it secured 1.045 trillion won ($781 million) worth of overseas or...
Hyundai unveils aerodynamic tech to increase EV mileage
Hyundai Motor Group on Tuesday unveiled an aerodynamic technology to increase electric vehicles’ mileage as the world’s third-largest au...
Hyundai, Kia dominate US Best Cars for the Money
Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday that Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have top seven categories in the 2024 Best Cars for the Money awards in...
Hyundai Motor, Kia rank 4th in Europe with record 2023 sales
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group saw its vehicle sales in Europe rise to a fresh record high in 2023, driven by sport utility v...
POSCO Int'l to supply motor cores to Hyundai, Kia in Europe
POSCO International Corp. announced on Thursday that it has secured an order for 1.03 million units of motor cores, which will be featured electric ...
Korea’s Kia to set up sales unit in Thailand; EV plant an option
South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. plans to establish a sales subsidiary in Thailand as part of its electric vehicle push in the...
