“Hyundai is a really modern firm that shares Amazon’s ardour for attempting to make clients’ lives higher and simpler day by day,” stated Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. “Our broad, strategic partnership ought to just do that, from altering the convenience with which clients should purchase automobiles on-line to creating it easy to make use of Alexa in Hyundai automobiles for leisure, purchasing, sensible residence changes, and calendar checks, to enabling Hyundai to remodel their buyer experiences and enterprise operations by shifting to AWS.”
President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Firm, Jaehoon (Jay) Chang, stated, “Hyundai is the primary automotive firm out there for full end-to-end transactions in Amazon’s US retailer, and that is one other instance of how we proceed to push for methods to raise the shopper journey along with our excellent retail companions.”
Whereas Amazon has had a deal for EV vans with Rivian, partnering with a significant legacy automaker like Hyundai is an enormous step up. For Hyundai, it additionally offers a equally quick, handy various to Tesla’s direct-sales on-line mannequin.
We would not be stunned to see different automakers observe Hyundai’s lead. In any case, Amazon already has a relationship with the likes of Stellantis.