Beijing Motors Korea was established in 2016 as the South Korean Branch of Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd., acquiring exclusive rights for distributing its electric vehicles in Korea.
Beijing Motors Korea has plans to produce Korean-made EVs with its own technology within three to four years by establishing its own manufacturing factories in South Korea.
In the preliminary stages, Beijing Motors Korea is currently involved in various activities that are expected to help its business positioning from current importer into net exporter in global markets.
In 2019, Beijing Motors Korea has a plan to first release electric low floor buses in the nation’s medium-sized bus market, and then it will introduce the electric passenger car EU5 and the highperformance electric car SUV EX5. Those cars have the world’s highest level performance, showing mileage of over 500 kilometers with only a single charging.
Beijing Motors Korea was determined to expand the supply of commercial trucks which are in relatively short supply in South Korea, targeting independent businessmen and company customers. With comparatively lower maintenance costs than internal combustion engines, they are expected to be popular among customers.
Beijing Automotive Group’s electric trucks features high competitiveness in price compared to those of EVs in the nation, with a little gap in quality. Beijing Motors Korea will target the medium- and small-sized truck market. These electric trucks deliver superior stability and performance. These trucks are expected to be impressive electric trucks popular among the nation’s buyers, especially the growing number of small businesses affected by the economic slowdown.
In fact, as of 2016, there were 140,000 units of these trucks sold. They are suitable for short-distance driving, and they can be developed into more optimized and functional types. Beijing Motors Korea plans to supply optimized trucks depending on each 
purpose in use.
Beijing Motors Korea had the electric bus FOTON AUV to be first sold in Gangneung City among the brands of Beijing Automotive Group, which made a trial run during the PyeongChang Olympics. Persistent efforts are now being made to advance into the South Korean market.
Beijing Automotive Group is a company that established Beijing Hyundai in China in collaboration with Hyundai Motors.
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Recently, there have been growingly positive perceptions on EVs not only in advanced countries but also in South Korea. Moreover, it is so meaningful that this trend is spreading more widely, and thus promoting the growing necessity for EVs.
There are numerous difficult issues to resolve in such related various areas as trade, environment and safety, horizontal industrial cooperation, etc. in the global EVs markets. KEVA was thus determined to try to have such pending issues well resolved through active steps.
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