Pretty insane
Anyone who has nothing to do with electric cars often gives the lack of experience as one of the arguments for choosing a car with a combustion engine. Hyundai is working on a version of the electric Ioniq 5 that may even silence those critics. In these photos you see the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, a car that, purely in terms of speed, wipes the floor with almost all hot hatches with a combustion engine.
Hyundai’s N division is certainly not only concerned with the development of sportier versions of cars with an internal combustion engine. Earlier this year, the horsepower adepts of the N-club showed, among other things, the RN22e, a preview of a 585 hp strong N version of the Ioniq 6. Even the equally electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 cannot escape an N treatment. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N has already been caught twice in a camouflage suit, but has never shown so much of its heavy packaging before.
With this fierce RN22e, Hyundai already gave a glimpse of the electric future of the N-label.
The earlier test models of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N mainly gave away their N-dna with the large brake discs visible behind the wheels, but the test car in these photos is actually dressed as an N model. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N gets its own front bumper complete with openings on either side of it. The wrapped Ioniq 5 N, which has never been used before and is strikingly large in light metal, also has elements at the rear that distinguish it from its milder motorized brothers. We notice a wider buttocks with vertical openings on the sides, a diffuser at the bottom of the rear bumper and a larger optically two-piece rear spoiler, between which a triangular third brake light can be found, as the i30 N also has.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, complete with thick bumpers and spoilers.
Hyundai supplies the Ioniq 5 as a 170 hp and 229 hp powerful rear-wheel drive and as a 325 hp variant with two electric motors. Sister model Kia EV6 is also available with two together no less than 585 hp electric motors and it seems that Hyundai is also bringing the powertrain of that executioner of an EV to the Ioniq 5 N. We don’t know yet how fast that N version will be. The 3.5 counts with which the Kia EV6 GT sprints to 100 km/h with those electric motors are undoubtedly quite indicative.
585 hp in a mid-range hot hatch is crazy and of course quite unprecedented. The Volkswagen ID3 gets a GTI-like GTX version that kicks it up to 340 hp. We are waiting for an ID3 where Volkswagen has attached the electrical equivalent of the R label to exceed that 340 hp. That ‘ID3 R’ must be very well armed to answer the EV powerhouse of Hyundai even somewhat.
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