After the Kia EV9, Hyundai will present its technical cousin, the Ioniq 7, an electric car with seven seats, in SUV format, with a style of its own, but technically very close to its Korean cousin.
If you are looking for an electric SUV today, you are spoiled for choice, because there are almost only that on the market! We deliberately exaggerate the feature, but before the arrival of small electric cars for less than 25,000 euros like the Citroën ë-C3 (and its slightly “SUV-ized” style) or the future Renault 5 E-Tech, but also electric station wagons with the Peugeot e-308 SW or even the new Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer, customers did not necessarily have a choice. It was SUV or nothing.
On the other hand, if this same customer is looking for an electric seven-seater model, he will not necessarily have the choice but to turn to an SUV, even if, there was a time, the Tesla Model S was offered with two additional seats in the trunk. Minivans have almost disappeared from circulation, and this role is now confined to SUVs. And there are not yet many of them, since at the time of writing, in France, only the Tesla Model X, Kia EV9 and Mercedes EQB offer seven seats.
A technical copy and paste of the Kia EV9?
And speaking of the Kia EV9, its technical cousin will soon present itself to us. This will be the Hyundai Ioniq 7 and it will be presented on June 27 at the Busan Motor Show which will take place in China. Unsurprisingly, this model will share many elements with the EV9, but also the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6, starting with the modular E-GMP platform.
The first rumors suggest two versions with 76.1 kWh or 99.8 kWh batteriesand a charging power of 350kW, allowing it to go from 10 to 80% in 25 minutes. In France, as for the EV9, we should only be entitled to the largest battery. This should be associated with two power levels: either 204 hp (150 kW) for the two-wheel drive version (propulsion), i.e. 385 hp (283 kW) for the four-wheel drive version combining two motors.
Pay attention to autonomy
As for WLTP autonomy, we obviously don’t have any information yet, given the fact that the car has not yet been presented. But we can easily base ourselves on those of the Kia EV9.
On the two-wheel drive version, the Kia SUV claims 563 km compared to 512 km for the four-wheel drive version.. We can imagine that the Hyundai Ioniq 7 offers generally the same level.
As we pointed out in our test of the EV9, these consumptions will be quite difficult to maintain, in particular because of the consumption. No miracle when you weigh more than 2.5 tonnes and carry 500 kilos of batteries.
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