Hyundai releases the first visual snippets of a new electric SUV. It is a study model that listens to the name Seven. The Seven is of course the harbinger of an electric SUV that Hyundai adds to the Ioniq family.
On November 17, Hyundai will pull the curtain on the Seven, a study model with which the brand looks forward to a new electric SUV during AutoMobility in Los Angeles. The Seven is not only a concrete preview of a new member of the electric Ioniq family, but also hints at the design path that Hyundai says it wants to walk in the coming years.
That Hyundai has a large electric SUV in development is not news. When Hyundai announced in 2020 that it would turn the model name Ioniq into a model line in the style of BMW’s i-series and the E-tron and EQ labels of Audi and Mercedes-Benz respectively, the brand already showed a first image. of three newcomers. One of these became the Ioniq 5 that you can already buy. That Ioniq 5 will get the much lower Ioniq 6 next year. After the Ioniq 6, Hyundai is going back up again, the Ioniq 7 on which the Seven Concept looks ahead, will follow after that.
Although Hyundai is already coming with the Seven Concept, the Ioniq 7 will only be on the market in 2024. Like its Ioniq brothers, the Sorento SUV uses the modular E-GMP platform specially developed for electric cars. So count on both 800v on-board voltage and short charging times. Later this decade, Hyundai’s model range should include twelve electric models worldwide. This also includes cars that will also be supplied with combustion engines and that are therefore probably not attached to the Ioniq label. Think of the current and next generation Kona.
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