Hyundai’s transition from internal combustion engine cars to battery cars is well underway, led by the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6.
The brand’s ‘N’ performance division is currently focusing on bringing some interesting elements into battery-powered vehicles.
Dual motor, high power Ioniq 5 N launches EV therefore, is being designed to get a lot of favor from the traditional petrol heads that are out there.
“We wanted to appeal to petrol enthusiasts who still say they would never drive an electric vehicle because of this,” said Hyundai executive technical advisor and comprehensive N brand expert Albert Biermann. This is not fun at all.
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“So we wanted to have some of them sit in the Ioniq 5 N and carry on the race days with the Ioniq 5 N and give those traditionally thinking petrolheads a good lesson about how is a quick lap around the track.
“[It] It can be fun to show these people what EVs are capable of today.
“I mean we’ve got some really traditional petrol heads in RN22e. For a given person, it may take 30 seconds, others may need two minutes to completely reset their thinking about an EV and how enjoyable and engaging it is to drive a vehicle.”
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Mr. Biermann has gone through this exercise a few times, and the response is surprising even when pushing hard on the track with “extremely fast driving”.
“Drivers then start to think this isn’t so bad after all, or better yet, it’s fun,” he added.
The Ioniq 5 N is a halo car for the N sub-brand that immediately became a spearhead in the automaker’s transition.
Unlike Kia’s upcoming EV6 GT high-performance electric vehicle Developed on the same E-GMP architecture as the Ioniq 5, Hyundai has been developed with a focus on racing, incorporating various changes, especially in the cooling department.
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One virtual dual clutch transmission (DCT) dubbed ‘N e-shift’ is one of the most exciting technologies being developed for Hyundai’s first high-performance electric vehicle.
There is also an accompanying sound that reflects the number of revolutions of the engine until pop, pop, pop of the rev limiter, through the loudspeaker. At least, that’s the part that engineers are currently working on getting ready to log off sometime in April or May 2023.
It has not been confirmed what will power the Ioniq 5 N, but it could offer more performance than EV6GTThe all-wheel drive system with dual motors has a capacity of 430 kW and 740 Nm of torque. Kia claims the EV6 GT can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.5 seconds.
Till Wartenberg, Hyundai’s Vice President of Brand N and Motorsport, is responsible for bringing the element of ‘fun to drive’ into upcoming performance electric vehicles, which he says is no small task. .
“We had to prove that it wasn’t right to worry about driving pleasure ending with electric cars, so our fundamental challenge was how to keep our brand relevant and usable. Whom do I serve?” he say.
“Certainly our EV N cars will have a higher price tag and a different kind of driving factor, but as close as possible to our internal combustion engine cars.
“So here is our challenge and what is the RN22e. We know a lot of people who have been impressed with it and believe that its fun-to-drive personality is still there.”
However, the transition from internal combustion engine N cars to electric vehicles is not something Wartenberg believes will happen overnight, at least not in Australia. In fact, Hyundai will continue to sell traditional gasoline-powered N cars here as long as emissions regulations allow it.
Albert Biermann confirmed this was the case.
He said: “For Australia at least, it is possible to have N cars with internal combustion engines for quite a long time – at least one model would be a safe option.
“For Australia, we can clearly see something like the next-generation i30 N sedan, which could technically exist, but on the other hand we could also have electric cars. N more affordable.
“By 2030, there will certainly be affordable solutions for N cars in the B and C segments,” said Biermann.
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Wartenberg also believes that the future of the N has a secure base here and it will always be able to provide electric cars that are fun to drive on the track at an affordable price because the folks at Hyundai are brave enough to go. follow this path.
“I believe future N cars will be more affordable thanks to economies of scale, there will be advanced technologies like we have today, and we will see a lot more room,” he said. more rolling experiments and more motorsports.
Ioniq 5 N rumored to launch in 2023, while specs are yet to be confirmed Ioniq 6 WOMEN is supposed to launch in 2024.
Biermann and Wartenberg was at Fourth Annual N Australia Festival at The Bend Motorsports Park in South Australia last weekend, where more than 200 N cars and their owners converge.
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