When Hyundai announced its Ioniq electric vehicle sub-brand last August, the Korean automaker said there would be three models to make up the initial range of offerings, all built on the company’s Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP).
The first to arrive was the Ioniq 5, and this will be followed by the Ioniq 6, which is a sedan previewed by the Prophecy concept, in 2022. Completing the trio is the Ioniq 7 that we already know to be an SUV, but a new teaser released during this year’s IAA Mobility event gives us a much clearer look at the upcoming model set to arrive in 2024.
Firstly, this will be a big SUV, with prior reports claiming it to be comparable in size to the three-row Palisade. Based on what is shown in the teaser, this certainly appears to be the case, and given the use of a dedicated EV platform, the Ioniq 7 looks to have a more significant wheelbase by comparison.
Design-wise, the SUV features slow-rising windscreen that meets with a sloping roofline to give a slippery silhouette. This is helped along by a face that lacks a conventional grille, replaced with a full-width LED light bar placed above a small lower intake flanked by vertical LED headlamps
Along the sides, you’ll find a kinked window line that points up vertically midway along the rear pillars, while squared wheel arches are accompanied by some futuristic-looking wheels. As there’s still some time to go until the 2024 debut date for the Ioniq 7, this is likely an early concept and we should expect a near-production prototype to be presented in the coming months.
The E-GMP is designed with modularity in mind, and since the Ioniq 7 is a longer vehicle compared to the Ioniq 5, there is room for a large battery pack. The automaker has already confirmed this in May, saying the Ioniq 7 will have a capacity of 100 kWh and an 800-volt electrical architecture, both linked to a dual-motor powertrain capable of 313 PS (308 hp or 230 kW).
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— Hyundai Worldwide (@Hyundai_Global) September 6, 2021
Impressive!
Hi PaulTan,
This is off-topic, but I was wondering if you could help enlighten me and fellow readers on a particular car issue.
I recently had a tyre change after 5 years for my Toyota Fortuner Petrol (yes, 5 years, I know what you’re thinking). I travel long distance from KL to Penang on a weekly basis (about 380km distance with average speed between 90 – 110km/h). It’s when I have my tank filled to the max. I discovered that after changing to a new set of tyres, I lost about 50km of mileage after completing the journey. I know this from the trip meter in my car and after filling up and calculating the fuel consumption (simply dividing km by liter of petrol).
I did some browsing on the Internet and found out that this is the case for every tyre change, and in mine, it is even more so, since it has been 5 years since the last tyre change. Curiously, the more I read, the more I discovered that there are such things as tyre efficiency rating and wet efficiency rating which should be taken into account as well when choosing a tyre. These things other than brandname also determines the price.
However, the one most people including me is familiar with is only the numbers permanently marked on tire sidewall that indicate the width, height, radial construction, load rating as well as speed rating (I simply copied this off the Internet).
I hope you could dive deeper into this issue, if you have the time so our thirst for knowledge can forever be quenched.
Thanks in advance.
Yes, what you are experiencing is called rolling resistance. Each tire has different rolling resistance (lower = better FC) and when the tire wears down, it it at the point of lowest rolling resistance in its life. Rolling resistance comes (mainly) from the internal friction of the tire compound and the less tread the tire has, the less distortion and therefore less internal friction.
save the world with ev’s, but lets put it in a unnecessarily huge suv
No choice bro, ppl becoming bigger and fatter.