00:00 Speaker A
Part of the Hyundai toolkit, I believe, is investing in America with, with thinks that the Meta plant building here.
00:06 Speaker B
Yeah.
00:07 Speaker A
Is that sort of the toolkit you guys have? Is that, is that sort of what you guys have been leaning into, even though that takes that’s years, it’s billions of dollars of, of investment.
00:14 Speaker B
Hey, I mean, we’re talking about tariffs and this, all of these started in the beginning of 2025. I just want to share as well that it’s not only that we have been with a factory here, but in 2019, we confirmed, the company confirmed an investment over $12 billion, which is a part of the Savannah plan that we just inaugurated a couple of weeks ago. I mean, really building, building a factory takes, at best, three years when they did that in a little bit shorter time. But that’s only enough to say that I mean, it’s not about tariffs why, why Hyundai Motor Group is investing in the US. The US is a very important market. It’s the most important market. And we are here to stay for the long run and to invest in the US.
00:59 Speaker A
Speaking of that US market, you know, the SUVs kind of run the, run the, run the roost here, and the Palisade behind us is, is that the newest one from Hyundai? Talk to us about what changes were made to this new vehicle in response to the US market.
01:10 Speaker B
So I mean, what today we just left the press conference revealing the new Palisades, which I’m extremely happy and proud about. So it’s the 2026 Palisade is our second generation. One of the things I am the happier of many others is that for the first time, we are going to have a hybrid power train. The current generation was only available on ice. Aside of that, of course, you can see a very bold, attractive great design. We also are introducing with the different design Palisade XRT Pro, which also was presented in here. Safety, which is which is extremely important for the company, always under the promise of our brand promise is, is amazing. So design, safety, technology, hybrid, power train, exactly.