Hyundai announces plans to produce three new electric vehicles
Hyundai has launched an electric vehicle brand, announcing three fully-electric models to be launched under the IONIQ branch over the next four years - starting with a midsize crossover called IONIQ 5.
Hyundai will launch the range of numerically named EVs under the new brand - which shares a name with the Korean carmakers best-selling hatchback. The even numbers used for saloons and odd numbers for SUVs. Over the next four years, starting in early 2021, the IONIQ brand will produce the 5, 6 and 7.
IONIQ 5 is based on a concept EV called '45' (pictured above), which Hyundai unveiled at the International Motor Show 2019 in Frankfurt as a homage to its very first concept car. In 2022, Hyundai will introduce IONIQ 6, which is a saloon based on the company’s latest concept EV ‘Prophecy’ (pictured below).
This will be followed by IONIQ 7, a large SUV in early 2024. Hyundai says all the vehicles will be inspired by past models. However, the manufacturer stated that Hyundai Ioniq will not form part of the new model range, suggesting it will either be renamed or replaced entirely.
IONIQ brand models will sit on an Electric Global Modular Platform, known as E-GMP, that will enable fast charging capability and long electric ranges. Hyundai Motor Group recently announced that the group aims to sell one million electric vehicles and take 10 percent share to become a leader in the global EV field by 2025.
By 2025, Hyundai intends to launch 16 new EVs to increase its annual EV sales to more than half a million – the equivalent of just over 10% of its total sales in 2019. As a whole, the Hyundai Motor Group is aiming to achieve a 5% global automotive market share and transition to a 'smart mobility solution provider', rather than purely a car manufacturer.
"The IONIQ brand will change the paradigm of EV customer experience," said Wonhong Cho, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Hyundai Motor Company. "With a new emphasis on connected living, we will offer electrified experiences integral to an eco-friendly lifestyle."
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conman on 17 August 2020
The Government cannot afford to sit on it's backside and should be in talks with Hyundai and Kia and other EV manufacturers, about producing EV vehicles in this country, because unless something is done this country will have no future vehicle manufacturers. Because in 2035 or 2032 or even 2030 we will lose thousands of jobs because the majority of our vehicles produced here are ICE vehicles.WestfieldLad on 17 August 2020
Looking back at the past history of the British motor industry since the 1970's there has been a steady decline of all the motor marques. Disgracefully inept and inexperienced (mis)management, union disputes over sometimes ridiculous petty grievances.Mostly brought about because of terrible working conditions, poor pay and lack of morale in the workplace and bolshie internally politically motivated shop stewards and convenors who could stop production within minutes.. I can remember working at the Ford Motor Company plant at Dagenham in the late 60's and throughout the 70's. You didn't know from one week to another if you were inside or outside the gates. I worked on electrical maintenance in the foundry,engine plant and the PTA and I can tell you the foundry was a place like hell on earth. The engine plant wasn't much better. Absolutely dreadful places to work in. Safety and Investment was practically non existent. The same models with just another facelift and the latest Mk2/3/4/ Zephyrs,Cortinas,Escorts etc. Today the European and Far Eastern factories are like immaculate robotic operating theatres, with staff who are fully trained and take a pride in their well paid positions.
Take a look on Youtube at the Dacia factory. In the 1980's Dacia produced a heap of junk called the Duster.My local garage in Winchelsea was a franchise, they sold the Duster for £5999 on the road, (which, looking back was about £5998 too much.My next door neighbour purchased one. He owned it for a year before it broke down. Spare parts, mainly obsolete Renault parts were unavailable. It sat in his garage for three years until a scrap vehicle dealer took it away. It was in the same class a the Yugo, absolute pile of unreliable rubbish. Today Dacia are STILL producing vehicles,they didn't turn over and disappear. Ok their vehicles may not be everyones cup of tea but they are reliable, reasonably well made and certainly good value for money.Unlike our dead and gone manufacturers who once produced such wonderful British motor cars. R.I.P. the British Car Industry.
Edited by WestfieldLad on 17/08/2020 at 18:33
soldierboy 001 on 17 August 2020
Your next door neighbor must be one unlucky guy because Duster MK 1 was a car lots of people wanted and continued in to production for many years.
WestfieldLad on 17 August 2020
Are you and I talking about the same vehicle?
The 1985 ARO based Romanian Dacia Duster.(Disaster)
Lots of people wanted them, Who? The same sort of folk who, in Russia registered their name and address and waited for 10 years to own a Lada?
Sorry but the Duster was a four wheel (14") disaster and unfortunate purchasers soon found that out.
I can remember Mr Alan Peccorini the proprietor and owner of 'The Strand Garage' at Winchelsea,East Sussex, saying that the Dacia Duster was a total nightmare of a vehicle.
ROGER FURNEAUX on 17 August 2020
I agree with conman, we certainly need EV capability here in the UK, but surely Nissan (part owned by Renault) in Sunderland are committed to make them. It also seems very short-sighted of Honda to stop production in Swindon: perhaps they will have a change of heart, but if not, a ready-built facility is there looking for a new owner. It is a crying shame that James Dyson could not persuade enough backers to join him in making his EV, after he poured millions of his own money into it: Swindon Honda plant could have become Dyson.But this is supposed to be about Hyundai: well I took delivery of a new Ioniq Electric two days before lock-down and I could not be more satisfied with it, so the future looks rosy for the South Korean brand.
Zippy123 on 20 August 2020
Re The Dyson car. I don't think you would have got any change from £70k for a base model. Not a car for the most people by a long shot.
Simonski on 17 August 2020
Expecting the UK government to help the UK motor industry is extremely optimistic. Their own economists predict the end of UK manufacturing (and farming) post brexit.GTC20th on 17 August 2020
Are any of the Ioniq cars likely to be affordable, without going into debt that is? Large SUV EVs will just require more raw materials to build them which could negate their supposed environmental benefits. Hopefully we will start to see more reasonably priced small EVs someday.alan1302 on 19 August 2020
@Conman - why do you not think any of the current makers in the UK will start building electric cars?on 22 August 2020
Old GrumpyWhy has nobody raised the prospect of Hyundai producing their Hydrogen fuelled vehicle in this country? Surely the future is Hydrogen fuelled Electric Vehicles!
Chris Ottewell on 24 August 2020
Have you not noticed that according to some motoring experts the best electric car in the world is a Jaguar?Add a comment