Hyundai Mobility Thailand (HMT), formerly known as Hyundai Motor Thailand, has just confirmed that it will be investing over 1 billion Baht (~RM 127.2 million) to build a new plant to locally produce electric vehicles there. The plant will be operated with an unnamed local partner, which Thai daily The Nation says is Thonburi Automotive Assembly. The plant will have a capacity to produce 5,000 EVs per year, supported by Thailand’s EV.35 incentives. EV3.5 incentives by Thailand’s Board of Investm

Far from just making EVs as most other ASEAN countries are aspiring to do, Singapore has already gone one step further by producing fully autonomous Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV robotaxis for export at the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore (HMGICS). The first production-ready Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV robotaxis – built at HMGICS – will soon be deployed for active commercial service in the US, starting in 2024. These Ioniq 5 robotaxis are amongst the first fully autonomous SAE Level 4 autonomous veh

Dinamikjaya Motors, the subsidiary of Bermaz Auto and official distributor of Kia vehicles in Malaysia hosted its first public preview of the Kia EV6 today at the Glenmarie Golf & Country Club. The preview is in conjunction with the PGM Kia Championship golf tournament. The battery electric Kia SUV is a sister-car of Hyundai’s Ioniq 5, riding on the same E-GMP battery electric drive-only platform. The display car is a right-hand drive model, so it’s likely to be very close to the forthcoming Mal

CKD Hyundai Ioniq 5 makes up 51 percent of new Hyundai cars booked at the 2022 Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS) Over 3,000 visitors test drove the Ioniq 5, first EV experience for many Hyundai Ioniq 5 is locally-assembled (CKD) in Indonesia, a world’s first The locally-assembled (CKD) Hyundai Ioniq 5 for Indonesia is off to a very strong start in ASEAN’s largest car market. At the recently concluded 2022 Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS, 31-March to 10-April), Hyundai recorded o

All new Volvos (except some variants of the XC40) from model year 2023 to receive OTA updates Reaches 190k cars globally in this week's release Malaysian market included Volvo has announced that all new Volvo car models from 2023 onwards are available with over-the-air (OTA) software update capability. The OTA capability now comes to the Volvo XC90, Volvo S60 and Volvo V60, and follows the technology’s initial introduction on Volvo Cars’ fully electric cars. This means that the company’s full po

Following Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin’s announcement last week with regard to the Short-Term Economic Recovery plan, Volvo Car Malaysia today released its new price list for all Volvo CKD (Completely Knocked Down) models to exclude sales tax, effective 15 June to 31 December 2020. Nalin Jain, Managing Director of Volvo Car Malaysia, said: “We fully welcome the introduction of the sales tax holiday and are grateful for the opportunity to pass on the full benefits to our customers. The