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Think of a amalgam car, and you’ll apparently account a boomerang-shaped apparatus alleged the Toyota Prius. Given the allowances to be reaped through acceptance by association, conceivably it comes as no abruptness that the new 2017 Hyundai Ioniq (I-on-ik) resembles a Prius in that same, axiological way.
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Daring aback it appeared for the 2004 archetypal year, the second-generation Toyota Prius hybrid’s iconic roofline, abnormal styling, and affected autogenous are today commonplace. That could explain why the latest adaptation of the Prius looks like it is aggravating so abuse adamantine to be different.
With the new 2017 Ioniq, Hyundai starts with the aforementioned basal architectonics adapt as the Prius, but pens a artlessly adorable automobile, one that is added bourgeois but at the aforementioned time added cohesive. The Hyundai Ioniq has a balanced, grown-up, complete appearance, and matches the Toyota aback it comes to its 0.24 accessory of drag. Call the Hyundai assured rather than cartoonish.
When the Ioniq goes on auction in February of 2017, it will aboriginal be offered as a gas-electric hybrid. In April an electric adaptation arrives for California residents, complete with 124 afar of active range. Then, in the fall, the 2018 Hyundai Ioniq calendar assets a constituent adaptation of the amalgam that provides a basal 27 afar of electric active ambit afore switching over to gas-electric amalgam propulsion.
Prices alpha at $23,035 (including $835 for destination) for the basal Ioniq Amalgam Dejected model, the one rated to get 58 mpg in accumulated active by the EPA. Upgrades in the Amalgam calendar accommodate mid-grade SEL trim and top-shelf Limited trim. Add the alternative Ultimate amalgamation to the Limited model, and the bulk climbs to $31,335.
Ioniq Electric models alpha at $30,335 in accepted trim, and dispatch to $36,835 for the Limited with the Ultimate package. Add the federal tax acclaim and, depending on breadth you live, any accompaniment rebates that ability be available, and the bulk of an Ioniq Electric Limited Ultimate could bead to beneath than $27,000.
At Hyundai’s invitation, we headed to clammy Santa Barbara, California, to sample both the Amalgam and the Electric models and to actuate whether Hyundai ability accept baffled Toyota at its own game. Upon antecedent inspection, it appears as admitting it may have.
If the Ioniq’s exoteric administration is a added acceptable estimation of the Prius, Hyundai acutely takes its own alley with attention to the interior. Breadth the Prius is badly altered from boilerplate automobiles for the purpose of, umm, actuality different, the Hyundai Ioniq is, in best respects, the aforementioned as added cars.
This is a acceptable thing. You get into the Ioniq Amalgam and, as continued as you’re accustomed with avant-garde infotainment systems, you anon apperceive breadth to acquisition things and how to accomplish them. Hyundai uses a agglomeration of knobs and buttons in acclimation to affluence quick adjustments to the stereo and altitude systems, while Mercedes-style “piano keys” accumulation accessible admission to capital affectation awning menus.
And let’s not balloon the adorableness of the Ioniq’s shifter. A acceptable PRNDL architectonics with a Sport active admission and abstracted chiral about-face aboideau featuring automatic mapping, it is an ideal apparatus for the assignment of alteration gears.
Hyundai takes a altered admission with the Ioniq Electric, which is able with a single-speed abridgement accessory transmission.
To accept a accessory in this model, a accumulating of buttons sits on the centermost animate in a simple and automatic arrangement. This architectonics additionally frees up affluence of amplitude for storage, and the Ioniq Electric offers a large, accessible accumulator bin aloof advanced of the centermost animate and beneath the altitude controls.
Other than these differences, the Electric’s altered instrumentation, and its adorning braking paddle shifters, the two cars are abundantly the aforementioned inside.
Note that while the Ioniq’s autogenous architectonics is adequately conventional, the abstracts acclimated in its architectonics are not. For example, all soft-touch surfaces are fabricated from a thermal artificial olefin composed of 25-percent amoroso pikestaff extract. Amoroso pikestaff is acclimated in the car’s amateur and carpeting fabrics, too, and the artificial genitalia are fabricated of recycled actual accumulated with delicate copse and agitable rock.
For a blooming car like this, the blush palette is rather drab. Buyers can accept black, white, silver, gray, or the Electric Dejected apparent in the photos. Interiors are offered alone in Charcoal Atramentous or the imaginatively called Beige.
All Ioniq models accumulation acme acclimation for both advanced seats, and all versions except for the Amalgam Dejected accommodate acrimonious advanced seats. Advancement from the abject trims for a ability adjustable driver’s seat, and cartage able with Limited trim accommodate covering upholstery with adverse brim and apparent stitching.
Thanks to a advanced ambit of bench and council caster adjustments, it is accessible for aloof about anyone to get adequate in the Ioniq. Hyundai uses soft-touch actual on the aerial allocation of the advanced aperture panels, and the flat-bottom council caster is both captivated in bland covering and shaped for a adequate grip.
Hyundai claims that the Ioniq is amid the roomiest cars in its segment, so I adopted to ride in the car’s aback bench for about 100 afar of active in acclimation to see if it can, indeed, backpack four adults in comfort.
Yes, it can.
The rear bench sits up aerial to accomplish allowance for the car’s ammunition catchbasin and battery, and this, in aggregate with carve-outs in the amateur to accomplish added amplitude for your noggin, helps to accomplish the Ioniq accommodating. Thigh abutment is good, and legroom is decent, but bottom amplitude is cramped. Nevertheless, I was able to block my admeasurement 13 anxiety beneath the advanced chairs.
A accurate analysis of rear-seat abundance is for a beyond developed to ride anon abaft a alpine person. My co-driver was 6’3”. He admired to sit in a low and somewhat reclined position. Riding anon abaft him, it took an hour and 45 afar of biking afore my larboard knee started agreeable for a stretch.
Luggage amplitude is acceptable in any adaptation of the Ioniq, but abnormally in the Amalgam models. That’s because its abate array does not crave any of the amplitude beneath the burden floor, acceptance for a added and beyond trunk. Hybrids can backpack 26.5 cubic-feet of burden in the trunk.
The Constituent Amalgam and Electric models accept a beyond array that bleeds from beneath the rear bench to the amplitude beneath the burden floor. Smart packaging, however, allows Hyundai to absorb as abundant block aggregate as is possible, and these versions of the car accumulation 23.8 cubic-feet of space.
Hyundai did not accommodate best burden amplitude volumes with the rear bench bankrupt down, but these numbers will acceptable double. Translated, the Ioniq offers as abundant amplitude for your being as a archetypal entry-level crossover SUV.
Every adaptation of the Ioniq is able with a touchscreen infotainment arrangement with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone bump capability. It additionally includes Bluetooth, HD Radio, accessory radio, USB connectivity, and more.
To get the beyond 8-inch display, you’ll charge to advancement to the Limited trim level. This infotainment arrangement additionally includes navigation, wireless accessory charging, Dejected Link cable services, and an Infinity exceptional complete arrangement with Clari-Fi music apology technology.
Each Ioniq Electric comes with a adulatory 3-year cable to Dejected Link, which now appearance Alexa and will anon accommodate Google Home integration. Dejected Link food a ambit of advantageous functions, from automatic blow notification and alerts advised to advice parents adviser teen-driver agent use, to Acquisition My Car and baseborn agent accretion features. The Ioniq Electric has an broadcast set of absolute Dejected Link appearance accompanying to charging and agent monitoring.
Additionally, the Ioniq is offered with a ambit of disciplinarian abetment and blow abstention technologies. All versions except abject trim levels accommodate a dark atom admonishing arrangement with rear cross-traffic active and a lane change assistant. Adaptive cruise control, advanced blow admonishing with banal apprehension and automatic emergency braking, and a lane abandonment admonishing arrangement are optional, provided in the Tech Amalgamation and Ultimate Amalgamation beyond the lineup.
Built from the arena up to serve as a amalgam and an electric vehicle, the Ioniq’s agent architectonics is primarily complete application high-strength steel, abnormally in cardinal locations about the commuter alcove in acclimation to abbreviate the advance of blast activity into the cabin.
Hyundai is targeting top crash-test ratings from both the federal government and the Insurance Institute for Artery Safety (IIHS), and the Ioniq has already becoming what Hyundai letters is a “best-in-class” blow aegis appraisement in Europe’s NCAP testing program.
The best affordable adaptation of the Ioniq, the Hybrid, is able with a direct-injected, Atkinson-cycle, 1.6-liter 4-cylinder engine, a 32-kW electric motor, an energy-dense 1.56-kWh lithium-polymer array with a lifetime assurance for the aboriginal owner, and a 6-speed dual-clutch automatic chiral chiral with Eco and Sport active modes. Total arrangement achievement measures 139 horsepower, with the electric motor accouterment lots of low-end torque to actuate the car’s 2,996 abject barrier weight.
According to the EPA, the Ioniq Amalgam Dejected is rated to get 57 mpg in the city, 59 mpg on the highway, and 58 mpg in accumulated driving. Remember, this is the lightest adaptation of the car, with the atomic bulk of equipment, and the skinniest 195/65 tires army to 15-inch wheels. Added versions are rated 55-mpg city, 54-mpg highway, and 55-mpg combined.
Note that the Ioniq does not use a continuously capricious chiral (CVT). Hyundai’s analysis shows that one acumen bodies don’t accept a amalgam agent is because they accept hybrids abridgement achievement and a adventurous feel from abaft the wheel. By application a dual-clutch chiral (DCT), Hyundai ensures that the Ioniq sounds and feels as abundant like a accustomed car as is possible, while accompanying carrying added agreeable active dynamics.
Solving for the perceived abridgement of active action was a analytical ambition for the Ioniq’s engineers. In accession to the annealed agent architectonics and DCT, Hyundai uses an aluminum awning and bear and, for Amalgam models, places both the array and ammunition catchbasin aural the car’s wheelbase. The aftereffect is a lower centermost of force accumulated with bigger weight distribution.
Furthermore, Hyundai employs an absolute rear abeyance for Amalgam and Constituent Amalgam versions of the Ioniq, and uses affluence of aluminum in both the advanced and rear suspensions to abate unsprung weight by 22 pounds.
Hyundai additionally formed carefully with supplier Michelin to advance tires that accumulation low rolling attrition to aerate ability accumulated with compounds and footstep designs that additionally aerate ride and administration attributes. If you’re accommodating to accord up some ammunition economy, the Ioniq Amalgam Limited is accessible with the great-looking 17-inch aluminum auto captivated in 225/45 tires as apparent on the dejected car in the photos.
Ioniq Constituent models add a added able 44.5-kW electric motor, a beyond 8.9-kWh lithium-polymer array (with lifetime warranty), and a 3.3-kW on-board charger. Basal estimates announce that this archetypal will accommodate 27 afar of electric active range, at which point it switches to acceptable gas-electric operation. Hyundai says it will recharge in eight hours application a accepted domiciliary ability outlet, or 2.25 hours application a 240-volt Akin 2 home charging station.
Official EPA ratings for the Ioniq Constituent Amalgam will be accessible afterpiece to the car’s accession in the abatement of 2017.
You can acquaint the aberration amid the Ioniq Electric and added models by its agleam atramentous “grille” console (gray on cars with atramentous paint). It additionally has a 16-inch aluminum caster architectonics that looks acceptable admitting admission for aerodynamics. In abject trim, the Ioniq Electric weighs 168 pounds added than the Ioniq Hybrid.
Under the hood, an 88-kW electric motor food 118 horsepower. A 28-kWh lithium-polymer array (with lifetime warranty) and a single-speed accessory drive chiral augment ability to the electric motor. The Ioniq Electric offers Normal, Eco, and Sport active modes, and paddles on the council caster acquiesce the disciplinarian to toggle through four altered bank adorning torque settings, which abduction activity as the car descends grades, slows for corners, or approaches intersections.
A accepted 6.6-kWh on-board charger includes accepted DC Fast Charge adequacy application an SAE Combo single-port charging system. Hyundai says that a 50-kW DC Fast Charger food 99 afar of ambit in 30 minutes, while a 100-kW charger does the aforementioned in aloof 23 minutes. At home, application a 240-volt home charging station, the Ioniq Electric recharges in 4.5 hours, and a abounding array provides 124 afar of active range. The EPA appraisement for the Electric is 136 MPGe.
Unfortunately, Ioniq Electric models use a beneath adult torsion-beam rear abeyance design, which is all-important to aerate accessible amplitude for the car’s beyond battery. The acceptable account is that with the added array weight over the rear axle, this simpler abeyance design’s appulse on the ride and administration is not absolutely as apparent as it ability contrarily be.
Before I allotment with you the ammunition abridgement cardinal empiric in the Ioniq Hybrid, it is analytical to accept testing altitude so that you accept ambience adjoin which to accede the information.
So, then, my ammunition abridgement aftereffect of 41.7 mpg should be advised a worst-case scenario.
With that said, I am afflicted with the Ioniq Hybrid. It calmly squirts abroad from a stop acknowledgment to the electric motor’s torque, and it can absorb assimilate a freeway after breaking abundant of a sweat. Passing ability is in adequately abbreviate supply, but contrarily I accept no problems with the Hybrid’s acceleration.
Modern CVTs are bigger than anytime at appearance their addiction to drone, slip, and hiccup, but I still adopt the Ioniq’s fast-responding and quick-shifting DCT which sounds and feels “normal.” The electric council is impressively tuned, too, admitting the added weight in Sport admission introduces an blackballed cast of artificiality to the council wheel. Acknowledgment to its adult attenuated adorning braking system, the Ioniq comes to a bland and affectionate stop every time, the pedal accessible to attune and activity absolutely accustomed at all times.
My admired affair about active the Ioniq Hybrid, however, is its abeyance tuning. This car lacks the depression and awkwardness frequently acquainted in a amalgam vehicle’s ride and administration characteristics. Instead, the Ioniq Amalgam feels light, lively, athletic, and balanced. It zips about corners and feels antic and responsive. Activate Sport mode, and the powertrain becomes instantly added alert while the council adds weight.
Though it is heavier, uses a almost abecedarian rear abeyance design, and sits on abate auto and tires, the Ioniq Electric’s silently effortless dispatch helps to accomplish up for perceived shortcomings. On a abbreviate 30-mile adventure on country roads, the Electric archetypal was adorable to drive, and I averaged 4.1 afar per kilowatt-hour of electricity while sampling the assorted active modes and carriage about two added bodies.
Is that good? Based on boilerplate electricity ante in 2015, and according to the U.S. Activity Advice Administration, you would accept paid as little as 7.4 cents for that kilowatt-hour if you lived in Washington state, and as abundant as 26.2 cents if you lived in Hawaii. Therefore, the Ioniq Electric would amount $1.81 to drive 100 afar in Washington, and $6.39 to drive 100 afar in Hawaii.
Compare that to the 41.7 mpg I got in the Ioniq Hybrid. To biking that aforementioned 100-mile ambit in Washington, breadth gas currently averages $2.74 per gallon, would amount $6.57 in the Hybrid. In Hawaii, breadth gas is $3.11, the Amalgam would amount $7.46 to biking 100 miles.
For best people, best of the time, an affordable car with allowance for four people, an able amalgam or electric powertrain, and the account supplied by a 5-door auto anatomy appearance makes for the absolute circadian driver.
Until this year, the best applied choices affair these belief were the Chevrolet Volt (plug-in), Nissan Leaf (electric), and Toyota Prius (hybrid), cars that bodies buy in animosity of their administration as generally as they do because of it, and with no apprehension of active amusement abreast from the achievement acquired from hyper-miling.
Now two new models are arduous the cachet quo.
Corporate cousins, the new 2017 Hyundai Ioniq and 2017 Kia Niro allotment their platforms and amalgam powertrains, the above application an iconic amalgam administration compound and the closing dressed up in a crossover SUV costume. This two-pronged advance by Hyundai and Kia on the articulation leaders is admirable of achievement because neither the Kia nor the Hyundai asks its owners to accommodation in agreement of design, ascendancy layout, technology, or active dynamics in acclimation to admission best efficiency.
Just accomplish abiding to acclimatize your expectations with attention to ammunition abridgement if you advancement to beyond auto and tires, backpack cartage on a approved basis, and drive the way you commonly would rather than how the EPA might. The official breadth ratings acutely represent best-case-scenario numbers.
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