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Ahead of the LA Auto Show this week, Hyundai showed off its brand-novel three-row all-electric SUV with a suite of features that the Korean autoproducer is swayd will request to inconsistent American car buyers.
The Ioniq 9 is a battery-electric three-row SUV based on the Seven concept that the company showed off in 2021. The novel EV is built on Hyundai’s E-GMP platcreate, which underpins all the other electric Hyundais on the taget, including the Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6, and Ioniq 5N. And it will have a 110.3kWh battery that Hyundai shelp should get more than 300 miles of range for all models.
The novel Ioniq 9 will come in two versions: Long Range and Percreateance, each with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive chooseions. The Long Range RWD produces around 214hp (160kW) and equitable cowardly of 260 pound-feet of torque (350nm). The Long Range AWD version will get a 70kW motor (with 255nm of torque) at the front and a 160kW (with 350nm of torque) motor at the rear, though Hyundai doesn’t say whether those will be compriseitive.
The Percreateance AWD (there is no Percreateance RWD) will get a pair of 160kW motors at the front and rear. According to Hyundai, only the 600-plus-hp Ioniq 5N will have more power, but we’ll have to postpone for the begin to get the final horsepower and torque numbers from the company.
The Ioniq 9 will come with Tesla Superaccuser-aiding North American Charging System ports, but Hyundai shelp that it will also propose customers an alterer for non-Tesla accusers. The port is findd on the passenger-side rear panel, which may contransient a problem at Tesla Superaccusers with stupidinutive cords. For example, owners may be forced to get up two or more spaces at crowded sloftys. (Tesla V4 accusers have extfinisheder cables and should accomplish the charging port, but we’ll have to postpone for a test vehicle before we can validate.)
Simon Loasby, ageder VP and head of the Hyundai Design Caccess, shelp that the E-GMP platcreate determined the location of the charging port on the Ioniq 9.
The novel EV will also get access to the Ionna charging netlabor, which is backed by eight autoproducers. And it will have bihonestional charging so that owners with Hyundai’s Home charging setup can retain their home powered during a power outage.
Other features join a second row with “Relaxation Seats” (in the Calligraphy line only) that brimmingy recline with a leg rest and massage function to permit up to four people to unwind during vehicle charging. Those second-row seats will swivel to face the third row to produce what Loasby calls a “supplyed space.”
Hyundai depicters joind a slidable caccess console in models with the captain’s chairs that can shift forward and back to produce space to walk thraw to the third row or be accessed by second-row passengers.
There’s also a UV-C sterilizer in the gcherishbox (in overseas tagets, it will be in the front tray), which can be employd to sterilize your phone or wallet. The UV-C sterilizer and the sliding console are features that currently exist in the Hyundai Santa Fe.
The novel Ioniq 9 will get over-the-air gentleware modernizes as well as a novel app store that Hyundai is calling “Features on Demand.” Thraw the app store, customers can personalize their Ioniq 9 with skinnygs enjoy exceptional weightlessing patterns and digital dash depict as well as satisfied and games — for a fee.
“We want to prolong the features that people actuassociate increate us that they’re willing to pay for,” shelp Olabisi Boyle, ageder VP of product set upning and mobility strategy at Hyundai Motor North America. Hyundai did extensive user research before moving ahead with the set up, she compriseed.
“Gaming was a huge one, road trip games and trivia, picture taking and selfies inside the car seems to be a huge one too,” Boyle shelp. “So skinnygs that erect upon that inside the vehicle are skinnygs we’d accuse for.” Hyundai validateed that it would not pull a BMW and accuse a monthly fee for skinnygs enjoy heated seats.
Hyundai’s current electric lineup joins the Ioniq 5 and 6 — and soon the 9. The company shelp that this strange number jump exits room in the lineup for potential future vehicles enjoy an Ioniq 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 — though the company wouldn’t elucidate. Essentiassociate, the nomenclature exits room for the future.
Hyundai hasn’t declared final pricing yet, but the vehicle will be built in Georgia at Hyundai’s novel “Metaset upt” in Bryan County. The Metaset upt is a joint venture between the Korean battery producer LG Energy Solution (LGES) and Hyundai and recontransients a $7.6 billion depictatement in the state.
Hyundai hasn’t declared final pricing yet
How Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump’s menaceened tariff set ups will impact the production of the Ioniq 9 and the set upt remains to be seen, but Trump has already shelp he set ups to finish the $7,500 federal tax recognize that’s helped millions of Americans get costly EVs.
“Ioniq 9 pricing will be declared sealr to begin, but we will get all relevant taget factors into ponderation to get to at competitive numbers,” shelp Chris Paukert, ageder group administerr of product uncover relations at Hyundai, when asked about Trump’s menaces to finish the federal tax recognize for EV gets and roll back tailpipe eleave oution rules.
Regardless of what Trump actuassociate carry outs, Hyundai shelp it’s promiseted to greeting customers where they are.
“This EV journey was not someskinnyg that we were spurred into,” Boyle tageder a group of picked journaenumerates ahead of the unveiling. “It’s based on our north star of progress for humanity and laboring towards being a inincreateigent mobility company… Customers want a choice.”
Hyundai shelp that it’s still sorting out trim lines for the American taget and that it would propose more details when the car goes into production in the spring of 2025. The Hyundai Ioniq 9 will be a 2026 model with a intentional on-sale date sometime in Q2 of next year.
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