Hyundai Motor and Kia appoint Kim Yong-hwa as new CTO

[딜사이트 박상우 기자] Kim Yong-hwa, head of Research and Development headquarters at Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors(photo)was promoted from vice president to president and appointed CTO (Chief Technology Officer), who oversees the research and development organization. At the same time, the Research and Development headquarters were reorganized on a large scale.

Hyundai Motor and Kia announced on the 12th that they are promoting Vice President Kim Yong-hwa, who was the head of the Research and Development headquarters, to president and appointing him to the CTO in charge of the Research and Development organization Develop. Along with this, the new president Kim will also be in charge of the SW vehicle.

The new president, Kim Yong-hwa, worked as a professional researcher at Ford, an American automaker, for about 15 years before joining Hyundai Motor Company in 2015 as managing director of the Powertrain Management Development Office. Since then, ▲Head of Powertrain Performance Development Center ▲Powertrain Support ▲Director of Hyundai NGV Other Non-Executive Director ▲Head of Hyundai Motor Company Research and Development Planning and Coordination Office ▲Head of Vehicle Control Development Center at Research and Development Headquarters ▲Research and Development Headquarters (Sub -president) Appointed GTG (president) and in charge of vehicle software.

Hyundai Motor and Kia also appointed Vice President Yang Hee-won, who was in charge of integrated product development, as head of TVD (Total Vehicle Development). The vacancy in charge of META (Mobility Engineering & Tech Acceleration) will be appointed later. At the same time, Hyundai Motor Company and Kia are responsible for Headquarters ▲TVD ▲Vehicle SW ▲META ▲ Independent Development Organization (Battery, Robotics, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Commercial) and Design Center, etc., to be an organization with a center with an organization. independent development system.

TVD Headquarters is an organization that comprehensively develops new vehicles, such as electric models, in order to strengthen vehicle development functions, new vehicle development organizations such as product integration development were collected and upgraded to the headquarters level. Specifically, ▲Genesis Development Division ▲Vehicle Development Division 1 for the development of versatile and compact cars ▲Vehicle Development Division 2 was organized for the development of medium and large vehicles under the umbrella to ensure efficient new car development in units brand and platform.

Furthermore, electrification development organizations such as the electrification design center and the electrification test center are located directly under the headquarters, enabling faster decision-making and the development of innovative technology and the development of electrification technology faster and more efficiently. .

▲Autonomous Driving Business Division ▲Vehicle Control Development Center ▲The Digital Engineering Center was added to the SW vehicle department, which included the existing Electronic Development Center and Information Development Center, to ensure consistency in software development and establish a development system more powerful. The SW vehicle division plans to research and implement the electronic architecture and integrated control strategy that will be applied to Hyundai and Kia vehicles in the future.

META leads the development of next generation innovative products. It includes ▲Mobility Technology Center ▲Vehicle Performance Technology Center ▲Vehicle Architecture Development Center ▲Basic Material Research Center.

The newly established Mobility Technology Center will be responsible for developing future innovative new technologies and new concept mobility and ensuring next generation architecture technology Responsible for advance performance research and improvement.

The vehicle architecture development center has greatly strengthened its architecture-based development function compared to the previous one. Through this, Hyundai Motor and Kia expect to be able to improve the completeness and speed of the architecture development process while also improving profitability.

Furthermore, as the Vehicle Architecture Development Center is organized under the META department, a development environment has been created where next-generation technologies and basic performance can be smoothly transferred to mass-produced products along with the succession of the modular architecture development system, Hyundai. Motors and Kia explained. In addition, the Basic Materials Research Centre, which was an independent organization from the current Research and Development headquarters, also enabled organic collaboration with other research and development organizations investigating innovative products.

In this reorganization, Hyundai Motor Company and Kia maintained the independent research and development system of business and design centers, excluding batteries, robotics, hydrogen fuel cells, and commercial vehicles, and organized them under the direct control of the CTO.