Hyundai Motor's Quality Management's Birthplace, 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of Mojave Driving Test Site in the U.S
Feb 14, 2025
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Hyundai Motor Kia held a 20th anniversary ceremony at the Mohave Driving Test Center in California City, California, on the 10th (local time) to honor researchers who have been working to secure perfect quality and performance.
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun, Hyundai Motor Vice Chairman Jang Jae-hoon, Hyundai Motor CEO Jose Munoz and President Yang Hee-won attended the event to look back on the past history of the Mohave driving test site and communicate with executives and employees about the direction to move forward. Hyundai Motor Group has been able to make meaningful progress thanks to the dedicated efforts of Mohave driving test sites and researchers over the past 20 years, Chairman Chung Eui-sun said at the meeting. "We need to focus on pioneering technologies such as AI, robotics, SDV, electrification, and hydrogen technology as we look to the future, and research facilities such as Mohave driving test sites will play a key role for this innovation." Chairman Chung Eui-sun then asked local researchers to "continue to work to achieve the mission of converting challenges into opportunities and frustrations into success in the upcoming 20 years." Employees of the Mohave driving test site who attended the
event also reaffirmed their commitment to provide the best safety, quality, and performance with customers, strengthening their commitment to tighter tempering.
In 2005, Hyundai Motor and Kia invested about 120 billion won in the middle of the Mojave Desert to build a Mojave driving test site of 17.7 million square meters (about 5.35 million pyeong), twice the size of Yeouido.
This driving test site consists of an oval highway circuit with ▲10.3km and ▲6 inclinations; ▲5km winding track ▲18 types of roadways; ▲ off road test; ▲ U.S. highway reproduction test.
Hyundai Motor Kia is conducting noise, vibration and durability tests from ride comfort and handling evaluations here, and in summer, the quality of the vehicle is verified from various angles, such as thermal durability evaluation or cooling performance of vehicles and parts using a climate exceeding 54℃.
More than 5,000 Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis vehicles have undergone rigorous driving tests of more than 32 million kmm so far at the Mohabee driving test site, which has played a key role in ensuring the highest quality, durability, reliability, and safety.
Completed here through harsh testing and real road conditions, Hyundai Motor and Kia's new cars have begun to attract consumers' attention while leading to positive market evaluation. Thanks to its improved product and quality, Hyundai Motor and Kia ranked third in global sales for the first time in 2022 in 12 years since it ranked in the top five globally in 2010, and have remained third for three consecutive years until last year.
Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor and Kia have established an R&D localization system ranging from product planning to design, design, and testing to provide optimized mobility in the North American market.
Starting with the establishment of the HATCI, Hyundai America Technical Centre, Inc. in Michigan in 1986, California operates a powertrain research facility called "Chino Lab," "Mohave Driving Test Center," "Design & Engineering Center," and "North America Quality Center," and Silicon Valley also operates CRADLE, a next-generation technology research facility and innovation hub.
In particular, Hyundai Motor Group has directly and indirectly created more than 570,000 jobs in the United States, including local R&D research bases and production bases in Alabama and Georgia, and has invested more than $20.5 billion (about 30 trillion won) in the United States since 2002.
Editor Kim Tae-jin, tj.kim@carguy.kr
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
