Hyundai goes the VW way and develops a production architecture for
electric cars. This is also to be used by group sister Kia. The South Korean duo wants to bring together 23 models with electric
drive by 2020.
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| The Ioniq is currently the most distinctive car of Hyundai in the electric car segment. Now the South Koreans have announced to build up a production architecture for vehicles with electric drive. Image: Hyundai |
he plans for an EV platform confirmed Lee Ki-sang, Hyundai-Kia's
chief for Green Car Operations, against the news agency
Reuters.
The new architecture has the accommodation of the battery packs in
the vehicle floor as a central element and allows a significantly more
generous space design of the cars.
The platform is designed so that all forms of electrified drive
can be imaged, from hybrids to purely electric cars to vehicles
with fuel cells. Lee Ki-sang did not mention a concrete timetable for the
realization of the plans and pointed to the high
investments.
IHS Markit expects the architecture to be applied across the
Group. Kia has announced 14 new models with an alternative drive by
2020 and plans to offer a fuel-cell vehicle by 2021; Hyundai wants to bring nine cars with electric car drive by
2020.
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