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11-03-2016, 12:45 PM
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Hyundai Ioniq
Hyundai announced this week that a souped-up version of its upcoming new Ioniq eco-car hit 160.7 miles per hour at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. That was good enough to earn a land-speed record for a “production-based” hybrid vehicle. Given all the performance-enhancing modifications to the record-setting Ioniq (including nitrous oxide injection)—and the odd category of fastest hybrid based upon, but not actually a production model—the speed record was obviously a publicity stunt meant to raise awareness that the Ioniq exists at all. Nonetheless, Hyundai is right to call attention to the Ioniq, which has mostly escaped notice. It deserves recognition as the first ever model to be offered as a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or pure electric car.
The all-electric and hybrid versions of the Ioniq will go on sale in late 2016, followed by the plug-in hybrid in mid-2017. We don’t have pricing info yet, but in the UK, where the EV is already on sale, it’s going for about the equivalent of $31,000.
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Hyundai Ioniq
Hyundai announced this week that a souped-up version of its upcoming new Ioniq eco-car hit 160.7 miles per hour at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. That was good enough to earn a land-speed record for a “production-based” hybrid vehicle. Given all the performance-enhancing modifications to the record-setting Ioniq (including nitrous oxide injection)—and the odd category of fastest hybrid based upon, but not actually a production model—the speed record was obviously a publicity stunt meant to raise awareness that the Ioniq exists at all. Nonetheless, Hyundai is right to call attention to the Ioniq, which has mostly escaped notice. It deserves recognition as the first ever model to be offered as a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or pure electric car.
The all-electric and hybrid versions of the Ioniq will go on sale in late 2016, followed by the plug-in hybrid in mid-2017. We don’t have pricing info yet, but in the UK, where the EV is already on sale, it’s going for about the equivalent of $31,000.
read more (http://www.plugincars.com/despite-lack-publicity-hyundai%E2%80%99s-new-ev-goes-sale-weeks-132351.html)
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