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Kia Corp (000270.KS) is a South Korean automaker, part of the Hyundai Motor Group, producing cars, SUVs and a growing lineup of hybrid and electric vehicles.
Kia began a Pangyo car-sharing trial on Thursday in which off-site operators drive empty PV5s to users over 4G and 5G through year-end. Both reports call it cheaper than full autonomy without giving a cost, so the trial's data is the first test of that claim.
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Hyundai Motor Group pledged $15.5 billion for India through 2032 after Executive Chair Chung Euisun met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. The company attached a figure to only one line of it, about $700 million for R&D.
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Hyundai inaugurated its Pune plant at 170,000 units a year, taking India capacity to 994,000 with Chennai's 824,000. Pune opens with the Venue, a model Chennai already built, so the volume to fill it has to come from exports and EVs.
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Renault has dropped plans to supply North America from its Busan plant and is recasting it as an export hub for Europe and Latin America. The Korea JoongAng Daily links the exit to US curbs on Chinese-linked vehicles.
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Peugeot has listed its full Korean lineup on Naver's Smart Store, the first carmaker to do so, after selling 979 vehicles in Korea last year. Buyers pay a deposit online, then finish the purchase with a dealer.
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Some months-old 2026 Toyota Rav4s are listing for $3,000 to $6,000 above new dealer prices, according to CarGurus data. Toyota cannot build the hybrids fast enough, so sellers of nearly new ones are asking shoppers to pay to skip the wait.
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Malgnsoft, an online training vendor, lost data on about 5,000 Kia union members in a hack that reached about 20 of its client organizations. One of those clients is the defense ministry, so a car-plant union's risk depended on who else kept records with the same vendor.
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Ford outsold Hyundai and Kia by about 17,000 US vehicles in September, enough to hold third place for the quarter after trailing them in July and August. The fuel-economy rollback credited with giving Detroit room on trucks starts only in late November, so Ford won the quarter under the old targets.
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GM, which sells one hybrid model, gave no date for more as hybrids rose to 19% of US vehicle sales in August from 16% before the war, according to JD Power. Record hybrid quarters went to Japanese and Korean rivals, while GM's last stated target for new hybrids is 2027.
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Kia sold a record 846,764 vehicles in the third quarter, up 7.8%, with three SUV models making up 37% of them. About 93% of the added volume came from abroad, while its fast-rising electric sales are concentrated in South Korea.
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Kia sold 76,850 cars in Britain from January to August, 776 more than BMW, to take second place behind Volkswagen on SMMT figures. That lead is under a tenth of Kia's average month in Britain, close enough for the order to change by December.
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Ford outsold Hyundai Motor Group by 1,195 light-duty U.S. vehicles in the third quarter and kept the No. 3 spot. Ford links its lower volume to retiring the Escape and Corsair, and that drop is about 58% of the 62,000 vehicles its lead shrank over the year.
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The GV90 rides the same 800V platform as the Ioniq 9 and EV9, so Genesis is selling doors, swivelling seats and heated floors instead. Crash testing will decide whether that works.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Kia's Korean electric volume more than doubled to 100,118 units by September 17 and now runs at 23.8% of everything it sells at home, with the EV3, EV5 and PV5 each landing between 20,000 and 26,000 units.
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Jeffrey Brantingham's team traced the 2020 theft surge to twenty Kia and Hyundai models built without engine immobilizers. Their Los Angeles forecast follows those cars as they depreciate into less affluent neighbourhoods.
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Hyundai has ruled out a 2027 listing for Boston Dynamics, whose 528.4 billion won loss last year was about a third of its five-year total, and Meritz Securities now expects a debut in 2029 or 2030.
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Detroit's protection against Chinese carmakers rests on a regulation from early 2025, and the industry wants a statute instead by the end of December, roughly three months after Trump and Xi are due to meet.
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Hyundai has released the first road footage of Atria AI, the self-driving platform it is building in-house, driving hands-off in Seoul traffic. Cars carrying it are due in mass production in the second half of 2029.
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US EV deliveries have fallen for three straight quarters since the $7,500 credit lapsed in September 2025. Most of the nameplates dropped this year were assembled outside the US, and each quarterly decline is smaller than the last.
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