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Innovative Mobility Transformation Kia starts anew with the ¡°ó³¡± mission statement
-Reporter Park Soo-young
On the 15th, Kia opened the'New Kia Brand Showcase' through YouTube and its global brand website, and announced a new brand orientation and specific future strategy to provide sustainable mobility solutions.
Through this event, Kia unveiled a new mission and expressed its will to break away from the existing manufacturing-centered business model. By reborn as ¡°Kia,¡± removing ¡°automotive¡± from the existing name ¡°Kia Motors¡±, we plan to expand our business areas through innovative mobility products and services, and improve the value of our customers' lives.
Ho-sung Song, President of Kia, said, ¡°I think free movement and movement is a fundamental human instinct and a unique right.¡± ¡°From this moment when we introduced a new brand orientation and strategy for the future, we continue to support customers and various social communities. Kia's transformation has begun to provide a possible mobility solution.¡±
First, through a showcase, Kia introduced the meaning of the new brand slogan ¡°Movement that inspires,¡± and explained its new brand orientation to deliver inspiration to customers through products, services and unique brand experiences.
Kia's new brand orientation focuses on the point that ¡°Movement¡± is the origin of human evolution. People move and move from their existing locations to find new places, meet new people, have new experiences, and gain inspiration. Kia's plan is to provide customers with diverse mobility as the essence of the brand, and to provide inspiration and relaxation to customers' lives through innovative products and services.
Artur Martins, Managing Director of Kia's Customer Experience Division, said, ¡°Mobility has enabled the constant progress, development, and evolution of mankind and inspired us to draw new ideas.¡± ¡°Connecting people through mobility It is the essence of the Kia brand and a milestone in the business direction, and we will continue to expand its scope further in the future.¡±
Kia has been leading the industry in the mobility field for over 75 years. In addition to making the country's first bicycle, it has also produced three-wheeled vehicles and a variety of trucks, and today it is one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers, providing transportation to millions of customers around the world.
Today's customers want a more flexible, greener and more integrated mobility experience. In addition, the development of data industry and new technology has raised expectations and diverse demands for personalized mobility solutions from customers.
Based on its new brand orientation and strategy, Kia plans to meet changing customer expectations by expanding eco-friendly products and services, and to lead the impact on the mobility experience more positively.
Kia has expanded its business area into the area of sustainable mobility through a new brand future strategy. Along with the changed mission, it announced the full-scale start of the mid- to long-term business strategy ¡°Plan S,¡± which was announced earlier last year.
'Plan S'is Kia's mid- to long-term strategy to occupy a leading position in the future mobility industry by expanding the business to ¡âelectric vehicles, ¡âmobility solutions, ¡âmobility services, and ¡âpurpose-based vehicles (PBVs).
Kia plans to establish a sustainable mobility production system by expanding the use of clean energy and recycled materials to expand its business into the sustainable mobility field.
To accelerate the popularization of electric vehicles, Kia plans to unveil seven new exclusive electric vehicle lineups by 2027. The new products to be introduced are characterized by having a diverse lineup from passengers to SUVs and MPVs, and all vehicle classes are applied with E-GMP, a platform exclusively for electric vehicles of Hyundai Motor Group, to apply long-distance driving and fast charging technology.
In addition, Kia is developing a variety of purpose-based vehicles (PBVs) for corporate customers. Purpose-based vehicles are composed of a modular body to meet the needs of various corporate customers based on a highly flexible skateboard platform. Based on partnerships with Canoo and Arrival, Kia plans to apply various bodies on an integrated modular platform so that the functions can be adjusted according to the needs of users.
The industry predicts that the demand for purpose-based vehicles will continue to increase due to the rapid growth of e-commerce and car-sharing services, and the scale is predicted to increase by five times by 2030. Kia plans to introduce purpose-based vehicles that meet the needs of businesses and individual customers, such as shared service vehicles, low-floor logistics vehicles, and delivery vehicles.
Kia's change of mission also includes plans to improve the way they work and culture. Kia President Ho-sung Song said, ¡°The change of the Kia brand is not just a change in the company's name and logo design, but also reflects the will to meet the diverse needs of customers around the world and open new horizons through expansion into new business areas.¡± "To this end, all Kia employees must have an autonomous and flexible work environment and a creative organizational culture that fits the new brand."
Another strategic goal of Plan S is to diversify its business by providing eco-friendly mobility services centering on electrification and autonomous driving technologies.
To this end, Kia is strengthening collaborations and partnerships with global mobility solution companies, and is developing various mobility services. In 2019, it invested in Ola, which provides a variety of mobility services in India, and in 2018, in Southeast Asia's largest vehicle calling service company and in Grab, a food delivery and payment solution company.
In addition, Kia is providing a vehicle-sharing service called WiBLE through collaboration with Spanish energy company Repsol in Madrid. Established in September 2018, WiBLE is operating more than 500 Niro Plug-in hybrid vehicles by applying a free floating method that allows you to freely rent and return vehicles within the service area. WiBLE has 130,000 members and is considered the most successful vehicle sharing service in Europe.
In addition, Kia launched a new service, KiaMobility, across Italy and Russia in September last year, accelerating its transition to a mobility solution provider. KiaMobility is a rental service that rents vehicles owned by dealers to customers for a period from one day to one year. Kia has developed a vehicle management platform and provides it to dealers, and plans to expand the service to various countries. to be.
Kia's first dedicated electric vehicle (project name CV) is expected to be unveiled in the first quarter of 2021, through which Kia plans to accelerate the electrification of its products. Based on E-GMP technology, the dedicated electric vehicle has a driving distance of more than 500 km and a fast charging system of less than 20 minutes, and a crossover type design is applied. In particular, the exclusive electric vehicle will be unveiled for the first time with Kia's new logo applied.
As the electric vehicle market expands, Kia has revealed its goal of securing a 6.6% share in the global electric vehicle market by 2025 and selling 500,000 electric vehicles per year by 2026.
On the other hand, Kia will hold a meeting at the end of this month to explain Kia's new design philosophy and the design direction of future products.
Kia Design Center Managing Director Karim Habib said, ¡°Kia will endeavor to make the lives of our customers more convenient and enriched, and we will introduce products that can provide an experience that is faithful to the instincts and intuitions of our customers. In line with the car name system, we plan to design a more original and progressive electric vehicle so that the brand can be felt realistically.¡±