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Socar and Apex Mobility map Jeju path to Korea-style autonomous driving hub

Published

27 July 2026

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operational-macro

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Autonomous VehiclesElectric VehiclesEnergy Storage

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South Korea

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Read at biz.chosun.com

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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review

SOCAR and Apex Mobility presented a three-step roadmap to South Korean officials to develop Jeju island as an autonomous driving hub, combining electric vehicle adoption, autonomous car-sharing, and robo-buses with an active V2G grid storage demonstration already underway under regulatory sandbox approval.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage.

◆ The Wire takeaway

If you're building autonomous mobility or grid-integration tech, Jeju just became a live testbed with government backing and a pre-built customer (SOCAR) running V2G at scale. The regulatory sandbox path they've opened—three ministries aligned on one island—is the template for moving from lab to real revenue in Asia-Pacific.

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1 source · 27 Jul 2026

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Autonomous VehiclesElectric VehiclesEnergy Storageautonomous-drivingregional-deploymentregulatory-sandboxv2g-gridmobility-hub