Hyundai Motor Group

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia are sister companies under the group, with US plants in Alabama and Georgia and Kia's plant in Georgia. Tucson, Palisade, Telluride, Ioniq, and EV6 are the nameplates US dealers order against.

The Georgia Metaplant is the capacity addition aimed at electric vehicles, so allocation from that site decides which dealers get the EVs shoppers are asking for. Group purchasing of steel, batteries, and parts is shared across Hyundai and Kia, which is a scale advantage a standalone brand does not have.

US dealers are franchised separately for Hyundai and for Kia, often under the same owner. Warranty parts and EV service tools tie those stores to the factory after the sale, and inventory turn is the metric the factory uses when it allocates the next month's cars.

Alabama, Georgia, and the Metaplant are the US production base both brands draw from.

Separate Hyundai and Kia franchises can sit under one dealer group and still receive different allocations.

Battery and EV component supply caps how many electric vehicles those plants can finish.

Shoppers comparing an Ioniq with a Kia EV are often looking at two franchises supplied by one group.

Dealers who cannot get Metaplant allocation lose the electric sale to whoever has the car on the lot.