When you think about the safest vehicles on the road, Hyundai and Kia are probably not the brands that come to mind first. However, perhaps they should be. Hyundai Motor Group received a total of 15 TOP SAFETY PICK+ (TSP+) awards this year from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety … [continued]
With 2025 numbers in and the more basic US EV sales reports out, now is the time for one of my favorite topics of exploration — how fast different automakers are electrifying. Yes, it just hit me that we should really do an analysis like this for global sales — … [continued]
It’s taken some time, but we’ve finally crunched the numbers for the US electric vehicle market in terms of auto brands and auto groups. (That’s full battery-electrics, not inclusive of plugin hybrids.) Here’s our report on how different auto brands and auto groups did in the EV market in 2025. … [continued]
We’ve already written about the top selling electric vehicles in the USA in the 3rd quarter and auto companies’ shares of US EV sales. Now we are on to the third analysis in this series, examining the share of auto brands’ and auto groups’ overall auto sales that were electric. … [continued]
After a series of other articles about the US electric vehicle (EV) market in the second quarter, here’s our last analysis and statistical breakdown for the quarter. This one concerns what percentage of different brands’ and auto groups’ total auto sales were EV sales last quarter. (Note that we’re only … [continued]
Yesterday, I reported on the USA’s top selling electric vehicle models in the 2nd quarter, and also reported that US EV sales were down 6% in Q2 year over year — entirely because of Tesla’s sales drop. But, looking more broadly, how are different auto brands and auto groups ranked … [continued]
I was invited recently to come to beautiful Savannah, Georgia, to both tour the new Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) and drive the new IONIQ 9, a new large and luxurious SUV from Hyundai. Hyundai Motor Group means Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis (all of which have separate designers and … [continued]
As they say, everything’s relative. Well, not everything — if it was, the word “relative” wouldn’t exist. But sometimes we want to or need to understand things in absolute terms, and other times we want to or need to understand things in relative terms. I have to say that I … [continued]
Which auto brands and auto groups are now ruling the US pure electric vehicle (EV) market? How much competition is there at the top now? Let’s roll into the numbers and charts and see. First of all, yes, despite Tesla losing sales year over year for two years in a … [continued]
Euisun Chung, Executive Chair Hyundai Motor Group speaks during the grand opening of the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 in Ellabell, Ga. (Corey Perrine/AP Content Services for Hyundai Motor America)
The largest economic development project in the history of Georgia is now open. Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America is a battery and vehicle assembly factory that Hyundai Motor Group invested $12.6 billion to build. The company says that it will produce up to 500,000 Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis electric and … [continued]
