It is uncommon to see an idea automobile obtain as a lot consideration and near-universal reward as Hyundai’s new N Imaginative and prescient 74 EV. The Ioniq 6-based RN22e can be having fun with appreciable reward, giving the South Korean automaker a double win. The one negativity we have seen within the social world is skepticism that these automobiles exist in actual life. They do, and the above video from Hyundai’s N crew ought to erase all doubt.
Posted to YouTube shortly after the official debut of each ideas on July 14, the brief driving clip is the stuff fanatics crave. There isn’t any narration, no backstory, and simply minimal music to accompany the motion. The result’s almost 4 minutes of the RN22e and N Imaginative and prescient 74 merely having enjoyable on a racetrack. Hyundai really calls these automobiles rolling labs, and every has a selected mission to discover high-performance purposes for future N-branded electrical automobiles.
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Admittedly, the official images from Hyundai look a bit too good in some respects. That seemingly led some folks to query whether or not the photographs have been merely renderings of deliberate ideas nonetheless in improvement. For that matter, the video appears fairly polished in some areas as nicely. However there are additionally loads of moments the place each ideas are clearly alive and nicely, and packing some critical energy.
The N Imaginative and prescient 74 is the extra highly effective of the 2. Technically a hybrid EV, it combines a hydrogen gasoline cell with a battery to energy a pair of electrical motors, one at every rear wheel. The result’s a mixed output of 671 horsepower (500 kilowatts), however with particular person motors on the again, Hyundai will discover varied points of torque vectoring in an electrical, RWD utility. Hyundai additionally says the mix of a hydrogen gasoline cell with a battery permits for cooler temperatures.
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As for the RN22e, it could or could not preview an Ioniq 6 N mannequin. It is Hyundai’s first devoted efficiency automobile using the E-GMP platform, that includes the identical 577-hp (430-kW) AWD powertrain used on the Kia EV6 GT. From there, the RM22e’s mission is to discover aerodynamic configurations in addition to torque vectoring for high-performance AWD EVs.
An Ioniq 6 N is all however assured at this level, although it could not look precisely just like the RN22e. Sadly, Hyundai has made no indication that the N Imaginative and prescient 74 will attain manufacturing. Nonetheless, based mostly on the appreciable reward this idea is producing, who’s to say what the longer term may maintain. Communicate loud sufficient, and simply possibly, Hyundai may pay attention.
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