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Hyundai Promises Longer-Range Ioniq EV in 2019
Hyundai Motor Co. plans to extend the driving range of the all-electric version of its slow-selling Ioniq hatchback.
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Hyundai Motor Co. plans to extend the driving range of the all-electric version of its slow-selling Ioniq hatchback.
The current Ioniq EV has a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rating of 124 miles—well below most new EVs. The Ioniq’s relatively paltry range and unpopular body style (car-based rather than a crossover) has limited sales to less than 300 units in the U.S. through the first nine months of the year.
The 2020 model due in the U.S. next year will get a “nice improvement,” Gil Castillo, Hyundai’s senior group manager for alternative vehicle strategy, tells InsideEVs. But Castillo says the increase won’t match the range of Hyundai’s upcoming Kona electric crossover vehicle, which can travel 258 miles per charge.
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