GM, Hyundai team up to slash costs of new vehicles and clean tech
GM, Hyundai team up to slash costs of new vehicles and clean tech
The hope is for better products and more efficient companies.
Two of the world's largest automakers are becoming closer friends, we learned this morning. Hyundai Motor Group and General Motors, which together sold 13.5 million cars last year, have decided to try and collaborate in a range of areas in the coming years, including vehicle design, technology development, and even supply chain sourcing.
GM is one of the world's oldest and most established automakers and has a long legacy of clever engineering solutions, albeit one often hamstrung by corporate decision-making.
Meanwhile, GM was just a year from its 60th birthday when HMG got going, and while the Korean automaker was not taken particularly seriously in the US as a budget brand at launch, over the last 15 years its products have been class-leading, especially its electric vehicles.
With the agreement signed, the two companies say they will immediately start looking for opportunities to work together, including jointly developing and producing new passenger and commercial vehicles, new internal combustion engines, and also new electric powertrains, whether those be battery- or hydrogen-powered.
There goes Hyundai.
Anything GM associates with is generally shit, so this is less exciting than Hyundai going it alone tbh.
Why are these morons still trying to push Hydrogen and work on new ICE?
They mention commercial vehicles. Fully electric still isn't viable for vehicles that are running all day. Be it price, down time to recharge, etc.
Why do you care? I never understand this argument as if companies can only work on one thing at a time. Hydrogen does have benefits over pure BEV and studying different designs can only increase industry knowledge and the number of solutions available even if they don't ultimately succeed in the end. Putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea.
Weird that GM and Hyundai are teaming up considering GM just broke up with Honda.