60 instead of 40 percent
According to Hyundai, more than half of the new Hyundai Kona sold in Europe will be fully electric. The share of that Kona Electric would therefore grow considerably compared to the previous Kona.
With the previous – and therefore first – generation of the Hyundai Kona, the electric version ultimately accounted for about 40 percent of sales in Europe. Hyundai Europe CEO Michael Cole says, according to Automotive News Europe, that this share will grow to 60 percent with the new Hyundai Kona. This is good news not only for Europe’s car fleet, but also for the economy. In contrast to the fuel Kona, the electric Kona is built in Europe, to be precise in the Czech Republic.
The new electric Kona would simply be more attractive due to its sharpened design and considerably larger size and would therefore attract more buyers, Hyundai thinks. However, this also applies, of course, to the other versions of Hyundai’s new crossover, which have the same body. In the electrical field, the new Kona Electric probably explores no boundaries, for the simple reason that the ‘old’ model is still completely up to date in that area. The exciting question is whether the Kona will also end up higher in the European EV ranking with the larger EV targets, because the competition is of course not sitting still either. In 2022, the Kona finished ninth on the list of Europe’s most popular EVs, funnily enough just ahead of the Kia Niro with which it shares its technology. In the Netherlands it is exactly the other way around.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl