India key to Hyundai's two million EV sales target by 2030, says CEO José Muñoz
electric vehicles globally by 2030, José Muñoz, President & CEO of the Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) said.
Munoz, who was in India to review operations at the Indian subsidiary Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL), said, the company is committed to make EVs more accessible and suited to needs of Indian consumers. “With HMC’s target to sell 2 million EVs by 2030 globally, India will play an important role in achieving this milestone”, Munoz said, adding, “HMC will continue to support HMIL to expand its EV offering and invest in the necessary infrastructure to support this shift.”
Hyundai Motor India — which launched the Creta EV earlier in January this year targeting customers in the mainstream market — plans to launch three more EVs in the coming years. Prior to the launch of the Creta EV, the company had a sole electric vehicle Ionia 5 on sale (at the upper end of the local passenger vehicle market).
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Addressing employees in a Townhall at the company’s headquarters in Gurugram, Munoz said, HMIL’s upcoming manufacturing facility in Talegaon, Maharashtra, will play an important role in improving local manufacturing capabilities. Munoz informed, “It will not only help meet the domestic demand but also position HMIL as a global manufacturing hub.”
Hyundai Motor India — which manufactured around 625,000 vehicles at it’s manufacturing plant near Chennai (Tamil Nadu) in the first 10 months of the ongoing fiscal year — is in the