Kia Motors announces ‘Plan S' strategy to spearhead transition to EV, mobility solutions by 2025
- Kia to offer 11 EVs by 2025, targeting a 6.6% global EV market share
- Kia to launch a dedicated EV model in 2021
- Kia to reach 25% share of its sales from eco-friendly vehicles by end of 2025
- Global annual sales target of 500,000 EVs, 1 million eco-friendly vehicles by 2026
- Mobility products and services to prioritize customer value
- Kia to enhance profitability by improving existing businesses and leadership in future businesses
- Kia to enter PBV market for corporate customers, offer customized PBVs
- Kia to invest 29 trillion won (US $25bn) by 2025
- Company targets 6% operating margin and 10.6% ROE in 2025
- CEO Han-woo Park: “Kia Motors will transform itself into a ceaselessly innovative brand by accelerating its bold and preemptive transition to future businesses”
Preemptive transition to EVs |
Lead popularization of EVs
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Provision of customized mobility solutions |
Pursue mobility services based on electric and autonomous vehicles, enter PBV business
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Plan S will see Kia Motors invest a total of 29 trillion won (US $25 billion) by the end of 2025 to establish leadership in vehicle electrification and diversify its business. By the end of this period, Kia Motors is targeting a 6% operating profit margin and 10.6% return on equity (ROE) ratio to secure the necessary capital and maximize shareholder value.
“As the auto industry undergoes turbulent changes, today is also an opportune time for Kia Motors to radically transform itself into a global enterprise dedicated to spearheading customer value-led innovations,” said Kia Motors President and CEO Han-woo Park. “Kia Motors will actively innovate to take on the challenges ahead, identifying and capitalizing on new opportunities to propel the company forward.”
CEO Park added: “Plan S is a bold and enterprising roadmap for Kia’s future business transition, buttressed by the two pillars of electric vehicles and mobility solutions. Our approach is to put customers first, and Kia will reinvigorate its brand innovation by developing products and services that offer new experiences for customers.”
As the two strategic objectives of Plan S, Kia will concentrate on (1) leading the popularization of electric vehicles, and (2) expanding mobility services for electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as entering the PBV business.
The company will pursue innovations across the board, encompassing brand identity, corporate identity, design identity and user experience, among other fields. Kia aims to enable customers to directly feel, experience, and understand the company’s evolution as an enterprise championing EVs and mobility solutions
Kia’s new brand system, which is slated to be revealed in the second half of this year, is currently being formulated under clear objectives. This includes becoming a pioneer in the age of EVs, a brand beloved by the millennial generation (those with a good grasp of information technology born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, a period witnessing the transition from the analog to the digital era) and Z generation (those born after the mid-1990s and grown up largely in a digital environment with a natural inclination for using digital tools, hence their nickname, ‘digital natives’), and a symbol of challenge and innovation.
At the same time, the company plans to maximize shareholder value and win more trust from the market by steadily strengthening its competitiveness through innovation of existing businesses, as well as by increasing profitability of future businesses.
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