Hyundai Motor Group Opens New €150m European Test Facility

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Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) has opened Square Campus, a caller €150m R&D installation astatine nan Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center (HMETC) successful Rüsselsheim americium Main, Germany. HMG says nan finance astatine Square Campus is simply a clear motion of its committedness to European market, and reflects nan value of nan region successful its semipermanent maturation strategy.

The Square Campus is nan largest finance successful R&D accommodation astatine HMETC since nan opening of nan Round Campus successful 2003. It will beryllium utilized for nan improvement of innovative technologies, and will play a cardinal domiciled successful nan improvement and marketplace stock of early Hyundai, Kia and Genesis models successful Europe.

While real-world prototype testing will stay a important portion of conveyance improvement programmes astatine HMG, nan Square Campus protects against nan challenges of conducting tests outdoors, and complements nan Group’s existing world testing and knowledge sharing programmes.

For example, nan 25,000m2 tract features pinch nan largest semi-anechoic enclosure wrong HMG, enabling unrestricted noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and drive-by sound testing without nan interest of outer upwind conditions.

The precocious dynamometer accommodation astatine nan Square Campus will besides let broad testing of vehicles and individual components. These accommodation are compatible pinch all-electric, hybrid and soul combustion motor (ICE) powertrain applications.

The field is besides equipped pinch a electrical conveyance (EV) charging laboratory, a state-of-the-art driving simulator, and accommodation for extended electronics strategy development. The second accommodation see technologies for over-the-air-updates (OTA), cybersecurity, and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

The description of nan HMETC installation besides entails an description of manpower, which has accrued by 20% since 2024. The organisation now employs much than 500 employees.

European improvement will proceed astatine HMETC’s accommodation astatine nan Nürburgring, which opened successful 2013. This installation was besides expanded done a €13m finance successful January 2025, pinch included an further 834m2 of testing facilities, dedicated shop areas, and specialised laboratories.