To respond to the electrification of the automotive market, the Hyundai brand is marketing a new electric car.
Capable of covering almost 500 kilometers on a single charge and filling its battery in 18 minutes, the Ioniq 5 must convince more motorists to switch to electric.
Faced with the explosion in sales of electric vehicles in 2020 in France (+ 169% compared to 2019), the South Korean brand Hyundai is marketing the new Ioniq 5. An SUV with a futuristic design, built on a new platform dedicated to engines electric and which can accept up to 350 kW of power on a fast charging station.
"Today, the charging time is divided by two or even three thanks to this new type of electric vehicle," explains Thibault Roussel, product manager at Hyundai.
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To display such recharging power, the brand relies on the 800-volt architecture of its platforms.
Technology that allows the Ioniq 5 to charge from 10 to 80% in 18 minutes.
"If we make the report and the equivalence in kilometers, we can load 100 kilometers in five minutes", underlines the project manager of the Korean brand.
A selling point
While the network of fast charging stations should expand until 2022, the charging speed of electric vehicles is becoming a criterion of choice. "One of the things that stopped me today is that I told myself that I could not use an electric to go on vacation and do more than 700 or 800 kilometers. But with a charge in 20 minutes, we have almost 80% of the load on this vehicle. That's what convinced me, ”explains Marc, owner of a diesel vehicle and who has pre-ordered a Hyundai Ioniq 5.
Other car manufacturers also want to improve the charging powers of their cars. The future platforms of Renault, Stellantis (PSA-FCA) and Volkswagen should allow faster charging. Finally, Tesla, a major player in electric mobility, regularly increases the charging power of its cars already in circulation, thanks to updates via the Internet.