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Hyundai EVs Coming Soon

Yashika Gupta

Oct 06,2024
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Hyundai Motor India has constantly featured on the top ten best-dealing buses list in India, month after month for times now. However, like several others, hasn’t been suitable to crack, If there’s one slice of the request the brand.

While the Kona made Hyundai one of the first brands to enter the EV space in India, its fairly high price label assured that it wasn’t a big dealer. Now, still, it appears that effects are about to change. Hyundai is listed to bring in new EVs under its “Ioniq” sub-brand. The “Ioniq” prefix will accompany all other EVs Hyundai will produce, much like “EQ” does for all-electric Mercs and “e-Tron” fore-Audis.

Ioniq 5

The Ioniq 5 is the first auto under the Ioniq marker to roll out. It’s got a design language that separates it from all other Hyundai’s and is grounded on a skateboard platform that’s modular and forms the base of Hyundai’s future EVs. In its present replication, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 will come with the option of a 72.6 kWh battery or a 58-kWh battery. This basically translates to 169hp of power and 350Nm necklace for the lower, single motor interpretation and 306hp of power and 605 Nm for the binary- motor bone. While this isn’t likely to help the Ioniq brand fall under the “budget EV” order, it'll offer an important- demanded disproof to the supremacy of Teslas and European EVs.

Europe is a request that Korea is veritably keen to dominate, with Hyundai having blazoned that it'll only vend EVs there by 2035. In order to keep up with the rearmost in battery technology, the brand is investing heavily into tech that can extend the auto’s range. Word is that Hyundai has also invested in lithium-ion battery technology that will extend the range of its Ioniq buses to nearly 800 km on a single charge.

Hyundai’s Vice President of Energy & Environmental Chemicals System Chang-Hwan Kim said that the brand has made a$ 100 million investments in a lithium-ion battery exploration start-up called SES. The US- grounded launch-up is, according to Hyundai, has made raids into technology that can greatly enhance the range and charging cycle capacity of batteries.

The Ioniq 5 is anticipated to enter the Indian request as a fully erected unit and will bring further than the Kona electric. It'll be brought in limited figures, and until Hyundai can gauge the viability of structure and assembling EVs locally, it'll be ended only as a demonstration of the brand’s EV- making prowess in the country. That said, Hyundai is considering making an affordable EV SUV in India, one that’s anticipated to be priced between Rs 10 lakh to Rs 17 lakh but isn’t likely to surface until 2024.

Ioniq 7

The Ioniq 7 serves as a halo auto, displaying everything that a Hyundai EV can offer. It’s the biggest EV made by the company and thus will come with a much larger battery. There’s also the Ioniq 6 hydrofoil which completes the Ioniq range at the moment and will set between the 5 and the 7, in terms of power, space and luxury.

For the moment, Hyundai is concentrated on bringing the 2022 Kona to the request, which will come with the option of a bigger 64kWh battery along with the standard39.2 kWh option, with the former delivering 201 bhp of power, 395Nm of necklace, and a range of nearly 484 km.