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Hyundai Motor is a South Korean automaker making cars, EVs (via its Genesis and Ioniq lines), and robotics ventures, including owning Boston Dynamics.
GM, which sells one hybrid model, gave no date for more as hybrids rose to 19% of US vehicle sales in August from 16% before the war, according to JD Power. Record hybrid quarters went to Japanese and Korean rivals, while GM's last stated target for new hybrids is 2027.
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Waymo has a Singapore timetable that runs to 2028. Whether it holds depends on approval from the Land Transport Authority and a safety assessment at a government test centre Waymo still has to clear.
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Saudi Arabia's newest carmaker has a plant on the kingdom's west coast and a design brief from the Crown Prince, and PIF wants the cluster around it to lift non-oil exports. Its Saudi supplier base is scheduled to arrive by 2034.
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Jeffrey Brantingham's team traced the 2020 theft surge to twenty Kia and Hyundai models built without engine immobilizers. Their Los Angeles forecast follows those cars as they depreciate into less affluent neighbourhoods.
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The one humanoid deployment with published duty numbers did a single station's worth of work, while Chinese makers supplied more than four in five installations worldwide in 2025. Both facts shape a pilot decision.
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US EV deliveries have fallen for three straight quarters since the $7,500 credit lapsed in September 2025. Most of the nameplates dropped this year were assembled outside the US, and each quarterly decline is smaller than the last.
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Xpeng's robotics unit took in more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, one of eight Chinese carmakers now building humanoids, while the nearest thing to a dated job on a real factory floor belongs to Hyundai.
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The Ojai vans picking up riders in San Francisco and Phoenix are built in Ningbo and land under a 127.5 percent tariff, a cost a fleet operator can spread over years of paid trips and a dealership cannot.
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Google's parked-video upgrade for Android Auto is gated three ways at once: by vehicle motion, by the automaker, and by subscription tier. No ship date came with it.
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LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid on Nvidia's Jetson Thor, Isaac GR00T and Halos in Q1 2027. The deployment that matters lands first: CLOiD on a washing machine line in Tennessee.
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