Hyundai to invest US$ 85 billion in South Korea by 2030

GlobalData

Mon, November 17, 2025 astatine 3:53 AM CST 2 min read

South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) announced it plans to put KRW 125.2 trillion (US$ 85 billion) successful South Korea by the extremity of 2030, with the purpose of strengthening the company’s quality to respond to rapidly changing planetary markets, and targeting caller concern segments to presumption it for semipermanent growth. HMG pointed retired that this latest home concern program is its largest yet - 40% higher than the KRW 89 trillion committed for the 2021-2025 period.

HMG confirmed that the concern is aimed astatine “strengthening South Korea's presumption arsenic a planetary mobility innovation hub, arsenic good arsenic stimulating broader economical maturation by advancing the AI/robotics manufacture and progressing the greenish vigor ecosystem.” Specifically, HMG’s five-year concern program volition beryllium allocated arsenic follows:

• KRW 50.5 trillion has been allocated crossed the AI, Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs), electrification, robotics, and hydrogen segments. This includes the constitution of an AI information centre and an AI exertion centre; strengthening carnal AI capabilities successful areas specified arsenic autonomous driving and robotics; gathering robotics manufacturing and foundry facilities; accelerating the introduction of automotive parts suppliers into the robotics components sector; and establishing manufacturing facilities for proton speech membrane (PEM) electrolyzers and related components, positioning them arsenic a planetary export business.

• KRW 38.5 trillion has been allocated to probe and improvement (R&D) for caller products and halfway technologies.

• KRW 36.2 trillion volition beryllium invested to optimize accumulation facilities to amended the company’s responsiveness to evolving planetary demand, and conception the Group’s Global Business Center (GBC) innovation hub.

In particular, the institution plans to found the ‘Hyundai Motor Group Physical AI Application Center’, which volition purpose to play a cardinal relation successful advancing the carnal AI ecosystem. This halfway volition aims to verify the completeness and information of robots trained connected large-scale behavioral information done AI and is expected to service arsenic an innovation testbed to guarantee reliability earlier deployment successful real-world concern settings.

Hyundai Motor is presently gathering a caller dedicated artillery electrical conveyance (BEV) works successful Ulsan, which is scheduled to beryllium completed successful 2026, portion a caller hydrogen substance compartment accumulation installation is scheduled to statesman operations successful 2027. Kia has conscionable completed a caller dedicated BEV works for PBVs successful Hwaseong, with a 2nd installation to beryllium completed successful the adjacent 2 years.

The radical besides plans to physique a installation with an yearly accumulation capableness of 1GW of PEM electrolyzers, utilized successful the accumulation of greenish hydrogen.