Hyundai Motor Group is moving forward in earnest to strengthen its competitiveness in core future businesses such as SDV, autonomous driving, SW, and AI, including completing the SDV Pace Car development project by 2026.

Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 9th that it will make the largest annual investment in its history in Korea this year.

In 2025, Hyundai Motor Group plans to invest KRW 24.3 trillion, a 19% increase from the previous domestic investment of KRW 20.4 trillion in 2024. In monetary terms, this is an increase of 3.9 trillion won.

Hyundai Motor Group's investment this year will focus on future new business areas such as development of next-generation products, securing key new technologies, and accelerating electrification and SDV in line with its mid- to long-term investment direction.

Hyundai Motor Group will invest KRW 11.5 trillion in research and development (R&D), KRW 12 trillion in current investment, and KRW 800 billion in strategic investment.

Research and development investment is used to secure key future capabilities such as improving product competitiveness, electrification, SDV, hydrogen products, and development of original technologies.

In the SDV field, the goal is to complete the SDV Pace Car development project that applies high-performance electric and electronic architecture for vehicles through software internalization by 2026 and expand its application to mass-produced vehicles.

Strategic investments are made to enhance the competitiveness of core future businesses such as autonomous driving, SW, and AI.

If we categorize domestic investment by business group in 2025, the investment in the finished vehicle sector will amount to 16.3 trillion won.

In addition to investing to expand domestic electric vehicle production capacity, the Hyundai Motor Group is also introducing innovative automobile production methods to improve manufacturing competitiveness.

As part of this, a hypercasting plant will be newly established at Hyundai Motor Company’s Ulsan plant. Hypercasting is an advanced manufacturing method that manufactures entire car bodies and is expected to contribute significantly to improving the performance of next-generation products such as electric vehicles.

We will further accelerate the development of core technologies to respond to the transition from EV to SDV, and we will also focus on researching hydrogen products and technologies for HTWO Grid solutions, such as the development of next-generation fuel cell systems and hydrogen buses and trucks, and the construction of hydrogen charging stations, as well as building an ecosystem.

In addition, the company plans to diversify into new businesses such as developing new mobility devices and robotics business.