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Hyundai Motor Ulsan Plant Ticket Price, Hours, Address and Reviews

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Hyundai Motor Ulsan Plant

• Address: 700, Yangjeong-dong, Buk-gu, Ulsan-si, South Korea Map
• Timings: 09:00 am - 04:00 pm Details
• Phone: +82-522802232
• Time Required: 01:00 Hrs
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It is the largest auto manufacturing facility in the world. There are nearly 5 production lines on a 20 km by 20km area of the plant. Among all the production lines, the assembly line is open to the public. When you go for visiting the plant, the first place you will visit is the Hyundai Motor Company Car Gallery. Here you get to see old Hyundai car modes and its parts. You get see car models that were never produced and also the limited editions. On the assembly line, you can see the production process of Hyundai’s most popular cars, lifted from one place to another and the workers installing more than 20,000 parts together within few minutes. This entire manufacturing process is awe inspiring for visitors. The primary attraction of this plant if the export shipping dock.

To enjoy a tour to this plant, you need to make reservation in online. There is tour course like –

Culture Hall (promotion hall) -  No. 1 Factory – No. 2 Factory – No.3 Factory – No. 4 Factory – No.5 Factory – Engine/ Gearbox Factory/ Driving testing site – Asan-ro – Export dock

Hyundai Motor Ulsan Plant Travel Tips

• Show timing– 9am, 9:30am, 10am, 12:00pm, 12:30pm, 1pm, 4pm.
• Entry is free.
• The plant is closed on weekends and national holidays.
• High seasons – March – June / September – November.
• Reservation during high season should be made in advance.
• Group tour is only available on bus.
• Group less than 12 people will be considered as individuals.
• Visitors must be over the age of 12years and at atleast of 130cm in height unless you are accompanied by a legal guardian (up to 2 children for each guardian).
• Tours cannot be taken the same day as application is submitted.
• Maximum occupancy of the plant is 200 people.
• International visitors are asked to call the office before applying online.
• Korean information service is available.
• Every tour should be with a guide.
• Foreign tourists must call and inquire about the necessary documents and other procedure.
• Language guidance available in English, Japanese and Chinese.
• At the end of the tour a souvenir is given.
• Factory is open to business or personnel in the industry.

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• Hyundai Motor Ulsan Plant Address: 700, Yangjeong-dong, Buk-gu, Ulsan-si, South Korea
• Hyundai Motor Ulsan Plant Contact Number: +82-522802232
• Hyundai Motor Ulsan Plant Timing: 09:00 am - 04:00 pm
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How I can book ticket tu Hyundai Motor Factory, Ulsan?

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Hi I am interested visiting ulsan plan. Is there any other way to book the tour? making an international call is very complicated, i have to buy an international phone package just for this call. Maybe there is an Emali or Whatsup number? Thank you

I'm coming to Korea. Would like to visit the factory, order and pay for a 2023 Genesis. How do I go about completing the process. Who should I write to? I thank you in advance for your prompt response.

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Hello! is it possible to visit a factory? is it reqiered to make a reservation before coming and how can i do it? thank you

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What phone number will work? Since foreign tourists must call, I need a good phone number, and as noted by others 82-522802232 does not work.

You can try contacting on 080-600-6000 or you can fill the contact information form available on their website and they will contact you back. 

I'm a US citizen and will be in Ulsan on Mon. 10/29. I would like to do the noon plant tour. I understand I should call the plant office BEFORE I make an online reservation. Please advise how I can make a reservation online.

You can call them on 82-522802232 to make enquires about an online reservation.

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In addition to some regular sites I would like taking tours of factories and maybe seeing some industrial/technology museums.

I understand the Hyundia car factory and Hyundia shipyard in Ulsan give tours but when I go to their web sites they have a notice about not having tours due to COVID 19. I am thinking maybe they just haven't updated their websites. Does anyone have any experience with these tours and/or know if they are running?

Also, is anyone aware of other factory tours in Korea (can be anywhere - I will travel to any city for them) or good historical museums on technology, old factories or the industrialization of Korea.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Hyundai Motors Ulsan Plant 현대자동차 울산공장

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As Hyundai Motor’s main production facility, the Ulsan Plant is comprised of five independent plant facilities on a land spanning 5,000,000 square meters. The plant is the world’s largest single automobile plant and employs over 34,000 personnel to produce an average of 5,600 vehicles a day. The plant has its own port, where up to three 50,000-ton vessels can anchor simultaneously. It has its own fire station, hospital, and patrol cars, all within the compound. Hyundai Motors Ulsan Plant is nestled among 580,000 trees and equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to preserve the environment, such as a waste water disposal plant. The plant tour offers a great opportunity for visitors to experience the manufacturing process of Hyundai Motors, which is emerging as a global car brand. Tour reservations can be made at the company website for groups of over 30 people.

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・Maximum Occupancy : 180 people

・Age limit : Open to visitors 13 years and up.

・Information : Hyundai Motors Ulsan Plant Briefing → Tour - Group tour: Only available by bus. * High Season: March-June / Sept. - Nov. (reservations must be made in advance) * For safety reasons, visitors must be over the age of 12, and must be at least 130 cm in x_height unless accompanied by a legal guardian (up to 2 children for each guardian). * Tours cannot be taken the same day as an application is submitted. * For group tours, conditions may vary by the purpose of the tour. Please contact directly for more information.

・Information : • 1330 Travel Hotline: +82-2-1330 (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese) • For more info: +82-52-280-2232~5

・Closed : Weekends & national holidays

・Operating Hours : Mon-Fri 09:00-16:00

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[Bus] - From Seoul Express Bus Terminal, take an express bus to Ulsan Express Bus Terminal. - From the north side of Lotte Hotel (next to the terminal), take Green Bus no. 401 or 1104 east to Hyundai Motors Ulsan Plant.

700 Yangjeong-dong, Buk-gu, Ulsan-si

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Gwangmyung and Suwon, 28 June 2018 – UNIDO ITPO Korea organized Industrial Tour for government officials to KIA Motors and Samsung Innovation Museum(SIM) in order to promote Korea’s leading manufacturing industry and introduce the history of industrial development in Korea.

19 government officials participated in the industrial tour are from 14 developing countries including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Ecuador. The officials are currently in the KOICA-Korea University Master’s Degree Program in Finance and Tax Policy.

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Ms. Ganbat, the Chief Accountant of Mongolia Human Resource Center, expressed “a deep impression by the techniques of Korea’s automobile manufacturing industry and diligence of Korean people” and remarked her appreciation to UNIDO ITPO Korea for organizing the industrial tour.

UNIDO ITPO Korea will continue to promote the inclusive and sustainable industrial development and technical cooperation between Korea and developing countries by organizing various activities  including industrial tours.

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After leaving the airport, we drive an hour south of the city to LG’s Pyongtaek facility, passing dozens of apartment complexes, each with 15 or 20 high-rise buildings. Each campus is big enough to be a city itself – dormitories for tech companies in some cases, based on the names in 30-foot-high letters that identify individual buildings. The scale of the city is simply enormous. It stretches on and on and on. There are 10 million people in the metropolis of Seoul; it is twice as dense as New York.

Pyongtaek is a mammoth office complex – a reminder of the sheer number of people responsible for making that cell phone you carelessly toss in your bag at the end of the day. And in one area of this campus is a smartphone assembly line, an airplane-hangar-sized room so clean it’ll make your teeth hurt.

Think about this: To make a CPU from raw chemicals or fabricate a piece of motherglass that individual screens are cut from requires a room so clean that dust doesn’t exist. The clothing you wear, the minute particles in your hair, are enough to ruin a wafer that cost thousands of dollars. Assembling phones doesn’t require the same clean-room environment as delicate CPUs, but it requires precautions nonetheless. We dropped our coats and bags, put on white lab coats, and wrapped our shoes in soft cloth booties. Pictures were strictly forbidden.

On benches and desktops sit the exposed guts of panels, connected to test machines that monitor their output.

LG’s assembly lines are designed to be modular; they can assemble high-end smartphones like the V20 or mass-tier models like the X power . On the day we visited, the line was churning out a model only for sale in Korea. Phones move along conveyor belts from machine to hand to machine again, as circuit boards arrive and are screwed in place. The actual assembly seems mundane: An individual worker may only plug in a power cord or repeatedly fasten the same two screws on phone after phone after phone.

Every 20 feet or so a conveyor belt carries the phones into enormous machines that bake them, test screens to ensure quality, and so on. Workers also visually inspect the phones to ensure that they are defect-free. The bar is high, and the rate of production errors is closely watched. I asked how many they’ve spotted that day alone, and they laughed at me.

No errors had come up recently, but some examples to watch for were on display at a nearby table. A dozen or so phones had tiny blemishes, screws that weren’t seated correctly or flawed circuits. The flaws were almost impossible to see by eye.

Paju, where TVs are made

The smartphone assembly line was fascinating, but we went to Korea to see big screens, too. So we headed to the Paju Display Cluster, one of LG Display’s enormous campuses and the world’s largest display manufacturing hub. It’s located at the very northern edge of South Korea, almost on the border with North Korea.

To reach it, we drove an hour north of Seoul on a highway that follows the Han River, which flows south out of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and into the greater Seoul area. A fence topped with concertina wire runs its length, preventing entry to the South via the waterway. Guard towers dot the length of the river – a reminder of the world we live in.

The Paju complex is made up of eight enormous buildings each seemingly larger than an airport terminal that sit on 420 acres. A ninth, called P9, is currently under construction. When completed, it will be the world’s largest OLED manufacturing plant. More than 17,000 people work at Paju, many living in enormous residential complexes on site. There are movie theaters, and grocery stores. There is a basketball court.

Of all the trade secrets LG Display has, what goes on inside of these buildings is the most secret. The products being created will earn billions; cameras – indeed, outsiders in general – are strictly forbidden. We were shown a variety of tomorrow’s technologies, proprietary stuff we weren’t allowed to share. And there was always something else: An entire showroom was roped off. We stood in a room to see next year’s products; behind us was an entire wall of something , covered by sheets. Go figure.

Instead, we flew on the LG helicopter an hour south to the Gumi facility, where LG assembles televisions. It was especially big: Picture several warehouses fused together, a warehouse to store other warehouses. doesn’t require the clean-room garb we donned for phone assembly. Indeed, it is lower tech than you might expect. Because technology changes so rapidly, assembly lines are designed to be modular. They look impermanent, almost transient, the sort of thing you would put together yourself if someone told you to make one.

Conveyor belts rolled along as straight as an arrow the entire length of the room, perhaps a quarter mile. Screens came down from the ceiling to workstations where arms, either robotic or human, attached the few circuit boards required to transmit and process the picture. Some of the mechanisms were ingenious – a machine that sorts screws and rolls them one at a time down a chute – and others are Rube Goldbergs, things that don’t appear that they could possibly work but clearly do. There were suction cups, for gosh sake — LOTS of them. And these machines themselves are closely guarded trade secrets? How strange.

Notable are the varied ways cardboard boxes and foam were packed. For some screens, this was a simple process: Drop the television into the box, angle it forward, drop in a manual, wrap it in packing tape. Rinse. Repeat. Others required a few pairs of hands to ensure that everything was seated correctly.

Along the way, the panels entered dark rooms where expert eyes ensured correct output and flagged any defects. It takes perhaps 10 minutes for a panel to enter the chain and leave as a television. And before shipping out, each is stored in a separate room and left running for days to ensure that no problems crop up.

Where products are perfected

The TV screen you watch Stranger Things on is more than just a blank canvas; the engineering work that goes into honing and improving future versions of it is nothing short of remarkable. We went back to Pyongtaek to learn a little about some of that work.

Much of what we saw was confidential, of the “I could tell you but I’d have to kill you” sort.

Up an elevator, down a corridor, and past a vast room where engineers tweak televisions, we saw benches and desktops filled with the exposed guts of TV panels, connected to test machines that monitored their output. Experts made infinitesimal changes to the chemicals that go into the surprisingly skimpy things, and carefully monitored the results.

Across the hall from all of those engineers was a room as black as night. Inside it, research engineers studied color accuracy, brightness levels, and viewing angles. One shortcoming to many LCD panels is pronounced shift in color at wide viewing angles: If you sit on the couch to the side of your TV instead of head on you’ll probably notice it. LG’s latest OLED panels emit exhibit almost no color shift even when viewed edge on. (A demo we were shown half a dozen times really underscored that point.)

Companies like LG take picture quality very seriously. LG’s 2016 OLED sets achieve 96 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, a space that describes the range of colors the television is capable of displaying. That’s almost all of them, in other words, but unsatisfying to the meticulous engineers we spoke with, who believe they can improve further for next year’s models. We talked with a half-dozen research engineers about steps the company is taking to improve color range even further.

As we left, we passed rooms where appliances are tested – refrigerators designed to hold other refrigerators so LG can test a fridge’s performance at a given temperature, and devices that drop phones from a specific height over and over or mash buttons thousands of times. One machine is essentially an enormous jeans-wearing ass; what happens if you sit on a particular phone 50,000 times in a row? In a sealed room in a sealed building in Pyonktaek, South, Korea, one engineer will soon know the answer.

Improving sound by destroying it entirely

Image quality is all well and good, but don’t underestimate the importance of audio. To measure and hone it, LG built an anechoic chamber in the Pyongtaek facility. Anechoic chambers are specially designed to absorb sound waves, thanks to chunky angles of foam, absorbent materials, and so on. Stand inside one and your entire reality shakes for a second; your body relies on echoes and sound for balance, you see. When you close the door to the chamber, it’s unsettlingly quiet.

Clap your hands inside an ordinary room and the sound echoes around, bouncing off the desk nearby, maybe reverberating back from a corner or the glass of a picture frame. In this chamber, there’s nothing: Clap your hands and the sound dies instantly after, leaving you waiting for sounds that never arrive. Even the floor is strange. An open wire mesh sits a foot or so above more foam. Weird doesn’t do it justice.

LG says it excavated ground beneath the chamber to ensure that it sits vibration free. Separate power and climate control systems are housed in a closet outside, along with computers displaying spectrometers that measure sound pressure levels within the chamber. It’s all very impressive.

Down the hall is another lab, where audio is tested more subjectively. It’s an ordinary living room, mundane to be honest, with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of reference speakers from brands that audiophiles crave: Kef, B&W, Dynaudio. A $50 Bluetooth speaker may not be able to compete, but manufacturers test them out against the best nonetheless.

Inside the idea factory

Seocho District is a small part of Seoul, South Korea’s capital city, which is a bustling giant. There are fewer neon signs than in New York or Tokyo, but It looks largely like any other big city – dozens of businesses dot the streets, ads are stacked vertically on buildings, and signs in English as well as Korean.

And people. There are hundreds of thousands of people. We stopped for street food at a busy market, elbowing past crowds to a stand selling steaming buns full of pork and vegetables. Something on a stick sits stacked on a plate; we drank cups of hot liquid that looked like tea but turned out to be broth.

On an ordinary street in this metropolis lives the Seocho Research & Development facility. It was born in 2009, and over 3000 people work there, giving birth to high-tech ideas from a glimmering pool of silicon and ambition. And as such, it’s one of the super secretive facilities that LG guards closely: Admission to Seocho meant forfeiting cell phones and laptops , signing non-disclosure forms, and so on. Indeed, we were only allowed to record a short video outside of the building.

A parking garage sits across the street from it; a sign there touts used cars. Oh, and here’s a fun fact: Seocho is part of Gangnam District — yep, that guy. In fact, there’s a well-known sculpture dedicated to Psy and his Gangnam Style song just down the street from our hotel. Whoop THAT.

Within the facility and its Innovation Lab, inventors turn raw ideas into the next big thing, whether they’re smart doorbells, self-steering vacuum cleaners, or next-generation display technologies.

And unfortunately, that’s all we’re allowed to tell you.

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SK Innovation's state-of-art tech makes factories more profitable and safe

A robot dog regularly patrols the Ulsan Complex. It alerts workers if it detects abnormal conditions, such as strangely high or low temperatures and gas leaks. [SK INNOVATION]

ULSAN — A robot dog patrols six times a day while a flying drone photographs equipment to detect cracks or safety risks.

Few humans are visible at SK Innovation's Ulsan Complex, called the “smart plant,” which imbues the simpler parts of its operations with AI and data transformation (DT). 

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Pictured are a robot dog and its house. The dog patrols the factory six times a day, each time taking up to 50 minutes. After each patrol, it goes back to the house to charge. [SK INNOVATION]

“The Ulsan Complex is a smart plant where we apply more advanced AI and DT technologies to reduce cost as well as ramp up safety,” Chung said.

SK Innovation’s Ulsan Complex, measuring 2.5 million pyeong (2,042 acres), began operation in 1964 as Korea's first oil refinery. The Ulsan Complex also houses several production plants run by SK Innovation’s other petroleum-related subsidiaries, such as SK geo centric, a petrochemical manufacturer, and SK Enmove, a lubricant supplier.

The robot dog, the work of Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics, patrols the factory six times per day, each round taking up to 50 minutes. It sounds an alarm when it detects abnormal conditions such as strangely high or low temperatures or gas leaks.

Humans just input assignments to the robotic canine, which it dutifully carries out. It can avoid obstacles by itself and do nearly everything that humans could, SK said.

An SK Innovation worker uses an augmented reality device to see a simulation of erecting scaffolding at the Ulsan Complex on Thursday. [SK INNOVATION]

When it comes to building scaffolding around the factory, a flying drone is brought in to tell workers where structures are needed and where they should not be built. Those building can see simulated platforms before their eyes thanks to the drones' cameras and sensors. 

“We estimate around 10 billion won [$7.3 million] of cost cut every year through preventing accidents in advance and money waste from mistakenly installed machines,” Chung said.

Other installed technologies, including the so-called Soft Sensor, were independently developed by SK Innovation.

The Soft Sensor is used to test chemicals under the valve that workers lack the capacity to test one by one. The sensor evaluates samples of each substance and predicts which, if any, variables will emerge, and at what points.

SK Innovation workers inspect the inside of a heat exchange virtually at the Ulsan Complex on Thursday. [SK INNOVATION]

Technology also comes in handy in the inspection of a heat exchanger with around 3,000 holes on its surface. A worker must open those holes, one by one, to check for visible cracks, a process that takes some three months to finish. SK's machinery is able to simplify that process by identifying which particular holes workers must observe.

Around 40 new technologies, in total, are in use at the plant, Chung said, adding that “we have sold some of them to SK affiliates.” 

To make it a profitable business, SK Innovation is “in talks with an Indian company to export such smart plant technologies.”

The firm is currently developing an extended reality program that can offer workers virtual safety training, as well as generative AI for engineers. Those products are slated to be introduced in the second half of this year.

SK Innovation currently employs 90 data scientists and 10 experts in AI and DT at the Ulsan Complex and plans to hire more as the business expands.

BY SARAH CHEA [[email protected]]

BYD’s $10,000 Seagull EV worrying rivals as it hits new markets

China’s BYD is launching its cheapest electric car in Europe next year. Ahead of its official debut, BYD’s $10K Seagull EV is already creating a stir among foreign rivals.

BYD is on a roll. Earlier this year, it declared a “liberation battle” against gas-powered vehicles and launched its cheapest EV , the Seagull Honor Edition.

Starting at $9,700 (69,80 yuan), BYD’s new Seagull EV is already stoking fear among rivals. Powered by BYD’s Blade batteries, the electric car is available in 30.08 kWh and 38.88 kWh models, which provide up to 190 miles (305 km) and 252 miles (405 km) CLTC range, respectively.

The low-cost EV earned the nickname “mini Lamborghini” as former Lamborghini designer Wolfgang Egger led the project.

Despite its affordable price tag, the Seagull’s interior features a 10.1″ rotating center screen with an otherwise minimalist design. Users can also interact and play media with DiLink’s intelligent network.

BYD’s Seagull is available in three trims in China. The base (Active) starts under $10K (69,800 yuan). The Free trim starts at $10,500 (75,800 yuan), while the range-topping Flying model costs $12,000 (85,800 yuan).

BYD’s $10K Seagull EV causing a stir among rivals

Terry Woychowski, former GM executive and president of automotive at Caresoft Global, called BYD’s low-cost Seagull a potential “clarion call for the rest of the industry” earlier this year.

Caresoft, an engineering and consulting firm, looks at every vehicle component to determine how it can be improved for its clients. After testing the Seagull , the company said it was simple and efficiently designed. More importantly, Caresoft was surprised by the electric car’s quality and reliability.

“What they do is done very well,” Woychowski said, “It’s efficiently done. BYD has already launched the Seagull in overseas markets, including Brazil.

The affordable EV is creating a stir among rivals. Ford CEO Jim Farley called it a “pretty damn good” car. Meanwhile, Martin Sander, head of Ford’s European EV unit, said, “Of course, we are nervous when new competition is coming to the market.”

Sold under the name Dolphin Mini, BYD’s low-cost electric car starts at around $20,000 (99,800 BRL) in Brazil, undercutting most of the competition.

In Mexico, it starts at $19,780 (358,800 pesos). Although Mexico “is not great for us,” according to BYD Americas CEO Stella Li. Li explained, “In the end we found a lot of demand, a lot of heat” for the Seagull.

Now, BYD aims even higher. Next year, it will launch the Seagull EV in Europe to compete with VW, Stellantis, and others on its home turf.

Despite tariffs, BYD expects the Seagull to start at less than 20,000 euros ($21,500). That’s still thousands lower than its rivals.

And BYD isn’t stopping there. The EV maker plans to launch a higher-end 25,000 euro ($27,000) electric car, according to European managing director Michael Shu. In addition, with two plants planned in the region, BYD expects to overcome the potential impacts of EU tariffs on China-made EVs.

Electrek’s Take

Although several automakers have recently announced plans to launch affordable EVs, BYD is already on top of the market.

With BYD’s $10K Seagull EV rolling out globally, rivals are bracing for the impact. Other automakers, like Ford and Kia, have shifted plans to focus on smaller, more affordable EVs to keep up with demand.

Meanwhile, although BYD is best known for its low-cost electric cars, the automaker is expanding into new segments.

BYD launched the Sea Lion 07 , a mid-size electric SUV set to rival Tesla’s best-selling Model Y. Starting at $26,250 (189,800 yuan), the new electric SUV undercuts the Model Y, which starts at $34,550 (249,900) in China.

Top comment by Beario

This car and company is the reason why I felt Tesla should have introduced an affordable model car instead of going the robotaxi route. BYD cars are well made and I am certain they are going to sell a lot wherever they are sold. In the United States, we can implement all the tariffs we want. It is going going to cause retaliatory tariffs implemented by China and then we will have a back and forth price war which benefits no one and makes consumers suffer. Tariffs will only slow down innovation in the US because car manufacturers here will not feel a need to make better cars and continue to sell us mediocre EVs. Our focus should be on innovation and making our products better to compete with companies like BYD.

The company is also launching a series of high-end luxury vehicles under its Yangwang brand. In February, the brand launched its first electric supercar , the U9, starting at $233,400 (1,680,000 yuan).

Yangwang’s first vehicle, the U8 off-roader, made its European debut at the Geneva International Motor Show in February.

BYD also launched its first pickup , the Shark PHEV, last week in Mexico, which will rival Toyota’s best-selling Hilux and Ford’s Ranger.

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Peter Johnson is covering the auto industry’s step-by-step transformation to electric vehicles. He is an experienced investor, financial writer, and EV enthusiast. His enthusiasm for electric vehicles, primarily Tesla, is a significant reason he pursued a career in investments. If he isn’t telling you about his latest 10K findings, you can find him enjoying the outdoors or exercising

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