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Hyundai is among the many leaders in the electrical automobile (EV) sport globally, and native distributor Hyundai-Sime Darby Motors (HSDM) can also be main the cost in Malaysia. It has already launched the Kona Electric and is now getting ready for the roll-out of the tremendous cool Ioniq 5.
We know this from an ‘Open for booking now!’ poster launched by new Hyundai dealer Sing Kwung Premium (see under). If the order books are already open, it’s sure that HSDM will likely be formally launching the EV in Malaysia quickly. According to our SA supply, it could possibly be as quickly as March – which begins tomorrow – and we’ll be handled to 2 battery choices, as per the Kona Electric.
The Ioniq 5, announced in February 2021 as the primary mannequin beneath Hyundai’s Ioniq sub-brand for EVs, is a big hatchback with two battery choices – 58 kWh and 72.6 kWh. Malaysia will get each, and the variants will likely be branded just like the Kona Electric, so count on the variants to be known as Lite, Plus and Max, if there are certainly three variants like the electrical crossover.
Globally, the 72.6 kWh battery may be had with both 215 hp/350 Nm (160 kW) single-motor rear-wheel-drive, or a 302 hp/605 Nm (225 kW) dual-motor AWD system, however we perceive that the last word Ioniq 5 will likely be accessible right here, with an 0-100 km/h time of 5.2 seconds and high pace of 185 km/h. This “Max” variant’s vary is 430 km on the WLTP cycle.
Uniquely, the Ioniq 5 is ready to immediately assist each 400 V and 800 V via boosting the automobile’s electrical motor and inverter, moderately than utilizing a separate built-in charger. With a 350 kW DC quick charger, customers can juice the battery from 10 to 80% in simply 18 minutes, and even simply 5 minutes of plugging in will be capable of internet an additional 100 km of WLTP-rated vary.
Here, we’ll have to attend for that stage of charger to be accessible – present DC quick chargers resembling these on the Shell Recharge network are 180 kW. At 50 kW, Hyundai says that the 72.6 kWh Ioniq 5 will replenish to 80% in round 62 minutes. Home 230V? 0-100% in 31 hours.
One novel function is the vehicle-to-load (V2L) sockets beneath the rear seats, which may provide as much as 3.6 kW to energy issues like electrical bicycles, scooters and tenting gear. More novel is that this EV’s design, a devoted adaptation of the Hyundai 45 Concept from Frankfurt 2019, which was in flip impressed by the 1974 Hyundai Pony Coupe Concept penned by an Italian chap known as Giorgetto Giugiaro, therefore the retro-modern look.
The Ioniq 5 is not any Pony in dimension although – whereas it appears to be like like a Golf-sized hatch, the dimensions is way bigger. At 4,635 mm lengthy and 1,890 mm extensive, it’s 430 mm longer and 90 mm wider than the Kona Electric, and the three-metre wheelbase is 400 mm lengthier than the Kona’s. The wheelbase is longer than that of a Toyota Camry (2,825 mm) and Mercedes-Benz E-Class (2,939 mm) by the way in which. This is a giant automobile.
As for pricing, count on the Ioniq 5, which is the corporate’s flagship EV, to value a good bit greater than the Kona Electric, which has a tax-free value vary of RM150k (39.2 kWh) to RM200k (64 kWh). If HSDM manages to provide the range-topping 72.6 kWh AWD Ioniq 5 a mid-RM200k value (it’s A$75,900 in Australia, which is RM229k) it’s going to most likely fly off the showroom ground as fast as it did Down Under.
Soon, the Sultan of Johor won’t be the only Ioniq 5 owner in city. What do you consider this EV?
GALLERY: Hyundai Ioniq 5, US market
