Hyundai Motor on Monday launched the N model’s first all-electric mannequin, the Ioniq 5 N, within the home market because it accelerates its transition to a future mobility options supplier.
The Ioniq 5 N, first unveiled on the 2023 Goodwood Pageant of Velocity in Nice Britain in July, comes with an 84 kWh battery pack and might speed up from zero to 100 kph in 3.4 seconds, the corporate stated in a press release.
The brand new mannequin represents a brand new section of driver-focused high-performance EVs because it boasts superior cornering and racetrack capabilities as an on a regular basis sportscar, stories Yonhap information company.
It’s priced at $58,000 (Rs 48L) after particular person consumption taxes and tax advantages given to environment-friendly autos. It may journey about 350 kms on a single cost, the assertion stated.
Ioniq 5 N combines the usual Ioniq 5 mannequin’s electrical international modular platform (E-GMP) with N’s motorsport-bred applied sciences. E-GMP is Hyundai Motor Group’s devoted EV platform.
Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 are constructed on the E-GMP platform, with the identical platform-based Ioniq 7 set to be launched subsequent 12 months.
Hyundai’s impartial Genesis model’s GV60 SUV, and its smaller affiliate Kia Corp.’s EV6 and EV9 SUVs additionally share the E-GMP platform.
The maker of Sonata sedans and Santa Fe SUVs plans to take a position 109.4 trillion received by 2032 to safe a number one place within the international future mobility market, whereas aiming to promote 1 million pure electrical fashions by 2030.
Hyundai’s first devoted EV manufacturing unit, the 300,000-unit-a-year Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia, the U.S., is below development with a purpose to begin operations within the second half of 2024.
One other EV-dedicated plant is being inbuilt Korea with the intention of beginning manufacturing in 2025.
The N fashions convey full efficiency functionality to day by day driving, whereas the N Line brings performance-inspired parts to base mannequin autos. The N Line fashions sit between Hyundai’s high-performance N model and the final Hyundai model.
— IANS
