Hyundai, Kia’s US sales up 4.4% amid chip shortage

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday its vehicle sales in the United States rose 4.4 per cent last month from a year earlier despite the extended chip shortage.Hyundai, its affiliate Kia Corp. and Hyundai’s independent Genesis brand sold a combined 120,642 vehicles in the world’s most important automobile market in September, up from 115,573 units a year ago, according to the companies’ sales data.Hyundai’s sales climbed 11 percent to 59,465 units last month from 53,800 a year ago, while Kia’s were up 6.4 percent to 56,270 from 52,906 during the same period, the data showed.Genesis vehicle sales rose 0.8 percent to 4,907 from 4,867 during the same period, reports Yonhap news agency.From January to September, the carmakers’ sales in the U.S. fell 7.5 percent to 1,087,326 autos from 1,175,480 during the same period of last year, the data showed.Hyundai’s sales fell 10 percent on-year to 528,298 units in the first nine months and Kia’s declined 6.7 percent to 518,148 from 555,525 during the same period. But Genesis model sales rose 19 percent to 40,880 from 34,320.Their sales results were partly affected by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).