For earning substantial strides in product or service quality, technological innovation and styling in the latest several years, Hyundai Motor was named OEM of the Yr by Informa Tech Automotive Group all through a ceremony final 7 days in Novi, MI, at Automotive Tech 7 days.
Drew Winter season, senior analyst and local community manager for ITAG, hosted the ceremony for the Informa Tech Automotive Awards, which honored the vehicle industry’s most promising suppliers, startups, mobility products, program, infotainment solutions, cybersecurity technology and more.
The winner of the previous award of the night, OEM of the Yr, was selected by Wards and TU Automotive editors and analysts with experience in engines, battery and electrification technology, electronic architectures, ADAS, autonomy, user working experience and connectivity. Informa Tech Automotive Group contains WardsAuto, Wards Intelligence and TU Automotive.
Wintertime said the winner was picked out to recognize how the environment is changing and which automaker is learning and adapting the quickest.
The judges picked the South Korean automaker for the award, citing its:
- Throughout-the-board product or service success with all its vehicle brand names.
- Phenomenal product improvements and arrive at into youthful market place segments.
- Proactive enhancement of bleeding-edge systems related to ADAS, AVs and EVs.
- Most recent EV that will be a single of the very initially autonomous autos to go into sequence generation.
- Acquisition of Boston Dynamics, arguably the most impressive robotics enterprise in the world.
- Promotion of women of all ages and people today of colour into superior-amount positions.
- Function towards provide-chain security with its own steel firm and options to build its possess silicon with affiliated corporations.







Accepting the award was Byungho Lee, director of propulsion techniques at the Hyundai Kia America Technical Heart in the vicinity of Ann Arbor, MI, who joked that he wished he could carry Place, the robotic puppy, to join in accepting the award. Place is crafted by Boston Dynamics.
Also for the duration of Automotive Tech 7 days, Hyundai won two Wards 10 Greatest Engines & Propulsion Techniques trophies (for Kona BEV and Santa Fe 2.5L turbo-4), as very well as a Wards 10 Very best Interiors award…