The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is making its public debut in Malaysia immediately, albeit in a field. The shielded EV is positioned on the Hyundai-Sime Darby Motors (HSDM) roadshow at 1 Utama’s outdated wing, so you’ll be able to be part of the peep present in the event you’re in the mall (it’ll be right here until Sunday). HSDM opened order books for the Ioniq 5 yesterday, and the official launch will occur this month.
The electrical {hardware} is nice, however what actually units the Ioniq 5 aside is its kind. The EV appears like a Golf-sized hatchback in footage, however as you’ll see at 1U, it’s really bigger. At 4,635 mm lengthy and 1,890 mm large, 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.
In reality, the wheelbase is longer than that of a Toyota Camry (2,825 mm) and Mercedes-Benz E-Class (2,939 mm), and 20-inch wheels can be found, though the show automobile right here wears 19-inch gadgets with Michelin Primacy rubber.
The Ioniq 5 is a devoted EV that’s constructed on Hyundai’s skateboard-like Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP). It’s additionally the primary mannequin beneath the brand new Ioniq sub-model for EVs, which can quickly welcome a sedan and an SUV.
Announced in February 2021, it’s 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 Giorgetto Giugiaro, therefore the retro-trendy look dominated by straight strains and sharp edges.
The ‘Z’ on the profile is the “Parametric Dynamics” fashion in motion, as seen on the latest Elantra. The Tetris-style “Parametric Pixel” rear lights – additionally discovered on the Staria’s twin towers – are very cool, as are the flush door handles and clamshell bonnet.
Hyundai says that the cabin makes use of eco-pleasant and sustainably sourced supplies. The seats are clad in an eco-processed leather-based that’s dyed and handled with plant oil extractions from flaxseed, whereas textiles are derived from sustainable fibres reminiscent of sugar cane bio parts, wool and poly yarns, in addition to materials woven from fibres made out of used PET plastic bottles.
Now that the EV has appeared on HSDM’s on-line “Click to Buy” web page, it’s confirmed that the Ioniq 5 comes in three variants named Lite, Plus and Max, as per the Kona Electric. The Lite comes with the 58 kWh battery and rear-wheel drive, and the Plus is a better-spec model of the 58 kWh RWD automobile. The Max is the vary-topper with a 72.6 kWh battery and twin-motor AWD.
RWD automobiles have a 170 PS/350 Nm (125 kW) rear motor, whereas the twin-motor AWD is the final word Ioniq 5 with 305 PS/605 Nm (225 kW) and a 0-100 km/h time of 5.2 seconds. Range is 430 km on the WLTP cycle. Top pace is 185 km/h for each RWD and AWD automobiles.
As for charging, 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 have the ability to web an additional 100 km of WLTP-rated vary. We don’t have such highly effective chargers but, nevertheless it’s good to know that the Ioniq is able to quicker charging when the {hardware} arrives.
Current DC quick chargers reminiscent of these on the Shell Recharge network are rated at 180 kW. At 50 kW, Hyundai says that the 72.6 kWh Ioniq 5 will replenish to 80% in round 62 minutes, so count on a lot shorter ready occasions at 180 kW DC chargers, even when it’s shared with one other EV. Juicing up with the onboard AC charger takes six hours and 6 minutes at 10.5 kW max. The Ioniq 5 has a CCS2 port.
By the way in which, automobile-to-load (V2L) sockets beneath the rear seats can provide as much as 3.6 kW to energy issues like electrical bicycles, scooters and tenting gear, so this automobile is sort of a big powerbank.
Order books are open, and whilst you can put your identify down for RM1,000, there’s no estimated worth but. Our guess is that the corporate’s flagship EV will price a good bit greater than the Kona Electric, which has a tax-free price range of RM150k (39.2 kWh) to RM200k (64 kWh).
In Australia, the place the Ioniq 5 sold out in two hours, the vary-topping 72.6 kWh AWD goes for A$75,900, which is RM229k. So, RM200k to RM250k in Malaysia? What do you consider the Ioniq 5?
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