{"id":431764,"date":"2019-06-25T12:40:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vbWFudWZhY3R1cmluZy9oeXVuZGFpLW9wZW5zLWNhci1hc3NlbWJseS1pbi1ldGhpb3BpYS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:15:08","slug":"hyundai-car-assembly-begins-in-ethiopia-with-plans-for-local-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/431764","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai car assembly begins in Ethiopia with plans for local parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hyundai assembly plant opened in Ethiopia, adding the South Korean brand to a small but growing local car-building scene. New Business Ethiopia reported the launch and quoted plant owner Haile on production goals. The site was to assemble Hyundai models and later electric cars, with a target of making at least 30 percent of parts in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hyundai car assembly begins in Ethiopia with plans for local parts\" \/>\n<p>Haile said that within five years the plant aimed to use fully domestic inputs. Hyundai worldwide was then building more than 14 million vehicles a year. Ethiopia already hosted Chinese Lifan and French Peugeot assembly, with Volkswagen also in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The opening fit a wider push to deepen manufacturing and cut import bills. For investors and workers, the test was whether local content and steady demand would follow the ribbon-cutting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/manufacturing\/hyundai-opens-car-assembly-in-ethiopia\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyundai opens car assembly in Ethiopia \u2013 New Business Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business Ethiopia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1OjW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755388,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431764\/revisions\/755388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}