Kia Corp. has began to function the Hwaseong EVO Plant, a devoted manufacturing facility for objective constructed automobile (PBV).
On Nov. 14, the corporate held a completion ceremony for EVO Plant East and a groundbreaking ceremony for EVO Plant West at AutoLand Hwaseong situated in Ujeong-eup, Hwaseong Metropolis, Gyeonggi Province.
The occasion was attended by roughly 200 individuals together with authorities and native authorities officers reminiscent of Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, Minister of Commerce, Trade and Power Kim Jung-kwan, Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon, and Hwaseong Metropolis Mayor Jeong Myeong-geun, in addition to Hyundai Motor Group officers together with Chairman Chung Eui-sun, Kia President Track Ho-sung, Hyundai Motor Group Strategic Planning President Sung Kim, and Hyundai Motor Group AVP Division President Track Chang-hyun.
Kia has secured a web site of 300,375 sq. meters, equal to 42 soccer fields, to ascertain Hwaseong EVO Plant East, EVO Plant West scheduled to function in 2027, and conversion facilities, investing roughly 4 trillion received in facility funding and R&D prices. By way of this, Kia will produce 250,000 PBV automobiles yearly and provide them domestically and internationally, using Hwaseong EVO Plant as a core PBV hub.
President Track Ho-sung mentioned, “Kia is selling PBV as a core future enterprise, taking the electrification transition of the sunshine industrial automobile (LCV) market as a possibility,” including, “In reference to the federal government’s electrical automobile assist insurance policies, we’ll contribute to strengthening nationwide industrial competitiveness by producing 2.63 million models domestically, accounting for 58% of the 4.51 million Kia electrical automobiles scheduled for world manufacturing from 2026 to 2030.”
The newly accomplished Hwaseong EVO Plant East was constructed on a web site of 99,976 sq. meters. It should produce PV5 fashions at an annual degree of 100,000 models, together with passenger, cargo, chassis cab, and wheelchair accessible automobile (WAV) fashions for transportation accessibility for the mobility impaired. Hwaseong EVO Plant West, scheduled to function in 2027, will probably be constructed on a web site of 136,671 sq. meters and is predicted to provide roughly 150,000 models yearly of Kia’s massive PBV fashions together with PV7.
Kia additionally operates a PBV conversion heart that develops specialised fashions in collaboration with companion corporations. The PBV conversion heart was established on a web site of 63,728 sq. meters and produces varied specialised conversion fashions reminiscent of open beds, field vans, and tenting automobiles using PV5. Future conversion fashions using PV7 and others are additionally deliberate for improvement and manufacturing. Kia envisions using the conversion heart as an advance base for creating PBV mannequin companies. A Kia official mentioned, “By way of collaboration with companion corporations to enhance high quality and set up varied response techniques, we count on to construct a PBV ecosystem that promotes PBV-based industrial competitiveness enhancement and mutual development.”
EVO Plant is a reputation combining “Evolution,” that means evolution, and “Plant,” that means manufacturing facility. In accordance with Kia’s clarification, it embodies the need to develop into a model that leads new mobility environments by pursuing evolution and innovation.
Hwaseong EVO Plant has extensively utilized future revolutionary manufacturing applied sciences and minimized carbon emissions. It was designed to allow real-time manufacturing facility operation and high quality administration by making use of E-FOREST, Hyundai Motor and Kia’s sensible manufacturing facility model that applies human-friendly sensible expertise primarily based on automation and informatization manufacturing options.
For the physique course of, a sensible logistics system with automated guided automobiles (AGV) was launched, and the portray course of was designed to scale back carbon emissions by roughly 20% in comparison with present factories by dry sales space operations that cut back carbon and dangerous substances.
For the meeting course of, each the present conveyor belt manufacturing methodology and cell manufacturing methodology that may concurrently manufacture several types of mobility are utilized, enabling numerous and versatile automobile manufacturing. It was created as a worker-friendly web site by making use of sensible tags as location-based automation units, specification data instruction screens for stopping operational errors, automation new applied sciences for harmful processes reminiscent of heavy object set up, and low-noise gear utility.
Moreover, Kia plans to speed up attaining RE100 (100% renewable vitality use) by investing in a 50MW (megawatt) scale photo voltaic renewable vitality era facility using roughly 105,000 pyeong of idle state-owned land at AutoLand Hwaseong.
A Kia official mentioned, “Primarily based on establishing a PBV manufacturing system and conversion facilities, we is not going to solely contribute to manufacturing business revitalization by making a PBV ecosystem domestically but additionally purchase competitiveness to steer the worldwide mild industrial automobile market.”
