Foxconn has unveiled its Model A electric vehicle with Japan as its first target market, tightening the link between its EV ambitions and a wider push into artificial intelligence.
The B-segment Model A, shown at the Nov 21-22 Hon Hai Tech Day 2025 in Taipei, is described as a reference EV that combines AI with modular hardware to serve multiple use cases rather than a single fixed specification.
Hon Hai chairman Young Liu said the car was jointly designed by Taiwanese and Japanese teams and will debut in Japan, where the company also plans to set up a local entity to support customers.
Production is expected to take place in Japan, while the same package is being pitched to prospective fleet and mobility clients in Southeast Asia.
Jun Seki, Hon Hai’s chief strategy officer for EVs, presented three Model A configurations tailored to different industries, including passenger transport and logistics.
The car uses a slim battery pack that can be fully charged in about 20 minutes and is managed by an AI-driven battery management system, drawing on the group’s ICT background.
Model A headlined a larger EV zone that also featured six colour variants of the Model B crossover, three specialised Model A variants, the Model T electric bus, mid-sized Model U shuttle, LMUV Model D and a North American version of the Model C SUV, indicating Foxconn’s aim to offer a family of reference vehicles to automakers and mobility operators.
More than 200 products and technologies were shown across Hon Hai Tech Day, which Foxconn used to stress its “vertical integration” capabilities from components to complete systems.
Behind the auto headlines, Foxconn is putting most of its capital behind AI.
Liu told Reuters the group plans to invest US$2–3 billion a year in AI over the next three to five years, the bulk of roughly US$5 billion in annual capex.
The company is building a US$1.4 billion Nvidia Blackwell GB300-based supercomputing centre in Taiwan for 2026 and has struck a partnership with OpenAI to design and manufacture AI data-centre hardware in the United States, positioning AI infrastructure and services as Foxconn’s main growth engine, with vehicles like Model A as showcase clients.
