It’s official—Hyundai’s three-row electrical SUV debuts later this 12 months and goes on sale for 2025. The automaker might name it the Ioniq 9, serving because the model’s equally massive equal to the Kia EV9 and an electrified different to its Palisade.
Hyundai was caught testing the brand new EV on US roads a couple of months in the past, skillfully hiding its design. Nonetheless, all indicators point out that the SUV will take a lot of its styling inspiration from 2021’s Ioniq Seven idea, its novel greenhouse, and different parts. The corporate has performed a superb job of constructing every Ioniq mannequin look distinctive, and its new SUV ought to comply with swimsuit.
The 2025 Ioniq 9 will seemingly trip on Hyundai’s E-GMP structure, sharing powertrain and battery configurations with its Kia sibling. The bottom EV9 provides rear-wheel drive and 215 horsepower, whereas an all-wheel drive mannequin with 379 hp and a much bigger battery tops the vary. Hyundai might pull these powertrains immediately over from Kia, however nothing has been confirmed but.
Whereas we are going to see the brand new Hyundai debut later this 12 months, which the corporate formally calls the 2025 Ioniq three-row SUV (EV), we don’t know when it’ll attain sellers. It’s a 2025 mannequin, which makes us suppose it’ll be on sale early subsequent 12 months, particularly if it’s sharing its {hardware} with Kia.
