Hyundai has made no secret of the fact that it wants to build an electric vehicle manufacturing facility in the United States. It announced $7.4-billion in investments across the US by 2025, destined for both upgrading its existing factories, but also building the all-important new one that will only build EVs.
The new plant will build both Hyundai- and Kia-badged EVs and back in May of 2013, when the manufacturer announced the expansion plan, it said production would start in 2022. Hyundai has also not given up on hydrogen, and it wants to help popularize this type of powertrain in the US in the future - the new facility may also act as a hub for the automaker’s hydrogen plans for America.
