Chevrolet’s parent company, General Motors (GM) and Hyundai Motor Company have signed an agreement to explore future collaboration across key strategic areas.
GM and Hyundai will look for ways to leverage their complementary scale and strengths to reduce costs and bring a wider range of vehicles and technologies to customers faster.
Potential collaboration projects center on co-development and production of passenger and commercial vehicles, internal combustion engines and clean-energy, electric and hydrogen technologies.
The two leading global OEMs also will review opportunities for combined sourcing in areas such as battery raw materials, steel, and other areas.
The framework agreement was signed by Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung and GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra.
Barra said a partnership between the two companies has the potential to make vehicle development more efficient by driving greater scale and supporting disciplined capital allocation.
“GM and Hyundai have complementary strengths and talented teams. Our goal is to unlock the scale and creativity of both companies to deliver even more competitive vehicles to customers faster and more efficiently,” said Barra.
Hyundai and GM’s flexibility and agility will allow both companies to explore the development of their shared capabilities.
“This partnership will enable Hyundai Motor and GM to evaluate opportunities to enhance competitiveness in key markets and vehicle segments, as well as drive cost efficiencies and provide stronger customer value through our combined expertise and innovative technologies,” said Chung.
Following the signing of the non-binding Memorandum of Understanding, assessment of opportunities and progression towards binding agreements will begin immediately.
What a coincidence that HARI now sells Chevrolet in the Philippines.
ReplyDeleteI think such partnership like that may even bring Chevrolet back in the rest of the globe while at the same time the Chevy brand could be acting as a substitute to both Hyundai and Kia, especially given that the bowtie brand has more sense of iconography as fellow US carmakers Ford and Jeep, interesting to explain that Hyundai had past connections with the Blue Oval and Chrysler (when the latter owned Mitsubishi Motors starting from 1970) too...
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