Hyundai Completely Shut Down the Internal Combustion Engine Division

South Korea-based automobile giant Hyundai has made a rapid entry into the era of electric cars. Announcing that it would halve the number of models with internal combustion engines in May 2021, the company took another major action 7 months after this announcement. Hyundai Motor Group, the parent company of Hyundai, Kia and Genesis, completely closed the internal combustion engine development division.

According to the shared details, the company closed its engine development division to transfer the funds allocated there to fully electric driveline development. The researchers in the engine design department of the company moved to electrification design center It was stated that only a few of them are left behind to continue improving internal combustion engines.

Hyundai prepares to go all-electric

In addition to this information, the company’s powertrain development center will become an electrification test center and the performance division will will focus on electric performance announced. It was also among the shared information that the company established a battery development center and the R&D center will focus on raw materials for batteries and semiconductors.

The company’s R&D boss, Park Chung-Kook, stated in an e-mail to his employees that the transition to electrification is inevitable. Chung-Kook said that the engine development process was a great success, but this experience from the past is no longer the case. must be used to create innovations stated.

Hyundai Motor Group aims to produce one million electric cars by 2025 and To be fully electric by 2040 aims. The company’s next electric car model will be the Ioniq 6, which will be the next model of the newly launched Ioniq 5 and will be released in 2022. In addition, Kia will also launch the EV6 vehicle in 2022.