- Hyundai Motor Group and Singapore’s HTX (Residence Workforce Science and Expertise Company) accomplice to rework how HTX develops and customizes Singapore’s public security fleet to reinforce agility and operational readiness
- First public security know-how demonstration is about to launch by 2028, that includes multi-purpose complete mobility options based mostly on modular frameworks such because the PBV platform
- Partnership additionally contains joint analysis and improvement in robotics, hydrogen and different future mobility applied sciences to strengthen public security in Singapore
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) and Singapore’s HTX (Residence Workforce Science and Expertise Company)[1] have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on future mobility and superior applied sciences. The MoU was signed in the course of the 2025 Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit Korea in Gyeongju.
The tripartite MoU was signed by Chan Tsan, Chief Govt of HTX, and representing Group stakeholders, Hyundai Motor Firm and Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Middle Singapore (HMGICS), Ilbum Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of International Coverage Workplace at Hyundai Motor Group and Hyun Sung Park, CEO of HMGICS. It was witnessed by Sim Ann, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Residence Affairs and Overseas Affairs and Sung Kim, President for Strategic Planning at Hyundai Motor Group.
By way of this partnership, Hyundai Motor Group and HTX will debut the Kia[2] PBV (Platform Past Automobile) modular electrical car (EV) platform of their first know-how demonstration mission in Singapore, to spice up the agility and operational readiness of Singapore’s fleet of public security autos. This collaboration may even discover joint analysis and utility of future applied sciences, together with robotics and hydrogen vitality.
Superb Surroundings for Check-Bedding New Transformative Applied sciences
Recognizing Singapore’s open insurance policies, sturdy financial system, and talent-rich setting, Hyundai Motor Group views the nation as an excellent location for a human-centered “sensible city mobility hub.” Since establishing HMGICS in 2023, the Group has constructed shut partnerships with native universities, authorities analysis institutes and world firms.
“Hyundai Motor Group has established a strong basis for driving public mobility innovation in partnership with the Singaporean authorities, leveraging our proprietary applied sciences,” mentioned Ilbum Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of International Coverage Workplace at Hyundai Motor Group. “By way of real-world demonstrations of mobility options, we are going to proceed to guide world innovation in future applied sciences corresponding to robotics and hydrogen.”
“Each partnership we forge is about advancing science and know-how to empower the Residence Workforce with higher instruments and smarter programs. This collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group allows us to push the boundaries of future mobility applied sciences and produce cutting-edge improvements into real-world Residence Workforce operations, and past,” mentioned HTX Chief Govt Chan Tsan.
Demonstrating a Multi-Goal Modular EV Platform for Public Security
Hyundai Motor Group and HTX plan to conduct an illustration mission for a multi-purpose modular EV platform by the top of 2028, aimed toward enhancing the operational effectivity of Singapore’s public security fleet, which incorporates autos corresponding to police automobiles and fast response autos.
At the moment, HTX customizes all kinds of autos to handle operational use instances for presidency businesses underneath Singapore’s Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA), which incorporates the Singapore Police Pressure and Singapore Civil Defence Pressure. To take its fleet administration capabilities to the following degree, Hyundai Motor Group and HTX will accomplice on the Kia PBV platform, making a unified operational platform constructed on modular car structure.
This flexibility and scalable design would permit HTX to rework fleet operations throughout the Residence Workforce Departments, considerably enhancing operational readiness, effectivity and adaptableness, whereas decreasing the necessity for a number of specialised autos. The mission is predicted to align with Singapore’s broader electrification technique in step with the Singapore Inexperienced Plan 2030, which incorporates Singapore’s imaginative and prescient for all autos to run on cleaner vitality by 2040.
Increasing Collaboration into Core Future Applied sciences
Past mobility, Hyundai Motor Group and HTX plan to collaborate on key future applied sciences corresponding to robotics and hydrogen vitality, with the purpose of reworking Singapore’s public security programs.
As a world mobility chief, Hyundai Motor Group continues to innovate in robotics and hydrogen vitality. Following its acquisition of Boston Dynamics in 2021, the Group introduced further investments in April to combine robotics into its manufacturing processes. In 2020, it additionally launched the world’s first mass-produced hydrogen-powered heavy-duty truck, the XCIENT Gas Cell, reinforcing its management in sustainable mobility.
