Hyundai’s next electric car platform will give birth to a car

Hyundai Motor Co The second-generation electric vehicle (EV) platform will support everything from small to “extra-large”, including pickup trucks.

The Kia subsidiary confirmed it was work on electric pickups last year, and its parent company has now confirmed the upcoming Integrated modular architecture (IMA) will support such vehicles.

IMA will support 13 vehicle types, scheduled to hit the market between 2025 and 2030: four for Hyundai’s eponymous brand, four for Kia and five for Genesis.

This is more than double that of the Electric-Global Module Platform (E-GMP), the platform for Hyundai ioniq 5, ioniq 6 and coming soon ioniq 7plus KIA EV6 And EV9.

The E-GMP has focused on medium to large SUVs, while the IMA will have a much broader range.

Although it didn’t use these acronyms in its CEO Investment Day presentation, Hyundai confirmed this early year it is rolling out two derivatives from IMA: eM, for use “across all segments” and promises 50% greater operating range than its current EVs; and eS, for special purpose vehicles.

The IMA will also showcase advances in battery technology, with AI-based real-time diagnostics of battery safety and the ability to charge and discharge batteries while driving, thanks to an independent power bank.

The IMA-based vehicle will also be the first Hyundai vehicle to use a lithium iron phosphate battery. Nickel manganese cobalt (NCM) batteries will also be used.

Other features of the IMA vehicle, as noted in Hyundai’s 2023 CEO’s Investor Day presentation, include a “pop-up display”.

The swiveling front seats will join the second row swivel seats debuting on the E-GMP-based Kia EV9, and Hyundai notes that the IMA-based cars will support Level 3+ autonomous driving (instead of because only Level 3).

As part of the development of the IMA, Hyundai intends to standardize modules and components between models to further expand economies of scale, rather than having those components limited to vehicles. share the same platform.

It says this will allow more than 80 popular modules to be used across different segments, regardless of vehicle type.

Kia confirmed last year at Investment Day that it will introduce two pickup models by 2027, one of which will be a dedicated electric pickup and the other a “strategic vehicle for emerging markets”.

The company also said it will start producing electric SUVs and mid-size pickups in the US from 2024. It’s unclear if the Hyundai brand will follow suit with its own line of electric pickups.

While Kia has yet to release any description of the pickup, it will have the internal combustion engine-powered ute – believed to be named Tasman – on local shores by 2025.

Hyundai had a ute of its own, but it was a completely different product and was not offered in Australia.

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