Hyundai has been ahead with regards to energy or fuel cell vehicles. However, they lost the race to Toyota as far as sales because of not well-developed infrastructure at home and high sticker price abroad.
As per Fortune, the devoted platform for electric vehicles won't be finished soon. But, Hyundai Motor in cooperation with Kia Motors plans to exhibit small electric sport utility vehicles that are based on a current platform.
Lee Ki-sang, who drives the Hyundai-Kia's green car operations, said in a meeting that the subcompact or conservative models will have a scope of more than 300km for each charge, and they will be more aggressive than rival offerings. With an advancement of a devoted architecture for electric vehicles, the automaker will have the capacity to install a battery pack in the vehicle floor to increase the capacity and to expand interior and cabin space. At Hyundai-Kia's green car research center in Yonging, Lee said that the electric vehicle platform will require high direct investments, however, in order to contend or compete actively in the battery electric market, they need.
As per Auto News, Hyundai plans to reveal new hydrogen-fueled SUV next year with longer driving range than adversary offerings from Toyota and Honda. Kim Sae-hoon said that the new model alongside new energy or fuel cell bus will be introduced early next year during the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
Together, Hyundai and Kia hope to have around 208 eco-friendly models by 2020, including a Kia fuel cell car, and a luxury Genesis electric vehicle. The most recent Sonata model will further get a plug-in hybrid trim and it will go on sale one year from now. The industrial rebuilding and the rise of new technologies give an awesome chance to Hyundai to lead back once more, said Kim at Hyundai's fuel cell R&D center in Mabuk.
