{"id":645881,"date":"2026-10-14T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645881\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:30:28","slug":"south-korean-carmaker-hyundai-to-invest-15-5-billion-in-india-by-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645881\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean carmaker Hyundai to invest $15.5 billion in India by 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/HYMLF\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hyundai Motor Group<\/a> on Tuesday said it plans to invest $15.5 billion from 2026 through 2032 in India, a market it considers core to the company&#8217;s emerging-market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyundai.com\/worldwide\/en\/newsroom\/detail\/0000001288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">growth and expansion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India remains one of Hyundai Motor Group&#8217;s most important and strategic markets globally,&#8221; Euisun Chung, the executive chair of Hyundai Motor Group, said in a release following his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this investment &#8220;reaffirms&#8221; the company&#8217;s commitment to the Indian market for the next 30 years and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>Over the seven-year plan, Hyundai said it will invest across manufacturing expansion and in developing research and development infrastructure, local supplier cultivation for parts localization, and future technology innovation.<\/p>\n<p>To execute these investments, Hyundai will set up a dedicated investment entity in India, it said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian car market has been hitting new records every month, driven by strong demand. In August, passenger car sales hit a new monthly record with sales of 439,000 units, over 36% higher year-on-year, as per data from industry body Society of Indian Auto Manufacturers. <\/p>\n<p>Hyundai is the third-largest car company in India and sold 247,980 passenger cars in the country between April and August this year, according to data released last month.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese carmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MARUTI-IN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maruti Suzuki<\/a> was the top seller in the country over that period, followed by India&#8217;s Mahindra &amp; Mahindra, as per SIAM&#8217;s data. However, in the financial year ended March 2026, Hyundai came in fourth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibef.org\/industry\/india-automobiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">edged out by M&amp;M and Tata Motors<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Hyundai has a total production capacity of 1.4 million vehicles across India and exports cars from these locations. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the South Korean company listed its India business unit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/HYUNDAI-IN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hyundai Motors India<\/a>, raising $3.3 billion in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/22\/hyundai-motor-india-shares-set-to-start-trading-after-countrys-largest-ipo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest-ever initial public offer<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Hyundai Motor Group on Tuesday said it plans to invest $15.5 billion from 2026 through 2032&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3199,7897,114,357,59263,21662,42047,85,207,46,72963,11471],"class_list":["post-645881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asia-economy","tag-autos","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-hyundai-motor-co","tag-hyundai-motor-company","tag-hyundai-motor-india-ltd","tag-il","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-maruti-suzuki-india-ltd","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}