The hybrid, jog-in hybrid and fully-electrical Hyundai Ioniq hatchback – now to no longer be pressured with the Ioniq 5 electrical car – will seemingly be phased out later this year, with no subsequent-technology mannequin in thought.
The ‘fresh’ Hyundai Ioniq hatchback fluctuate will depart from Australian showrooms earlier than the cease of this year, in spite of increasing search info from for hybrid and electrical vehicles – with no replace in see.
Launched globally in 2016 – or in Australia in leisurely 2018 – the Ioniq fluctuate change into Hyundai’s first car built particularly for electrified powertrains, with a replacement of Toyota Prius-rivalling ragged hybrid, jog-in hybrid or fully-electrical drivetrains.
On the replacement hand, the jog has now been pulled from all three versions, with dispute books now closed, and the closing examples due in showrooms in the 2nd half of 2022.
A motive for the resolution has no longer been confirmed, but it completely’s anticipated the Ioniq’s axing in the community will coincide with the cease of worldwide production, given the car is now six years ragged – across the point of their life cycles that Hyundai vehicles are replaced with fresh gadgets.
But in contrast to the Tucson, Kona and assorted contemporary Hyundai mannequin launches, there might be no fresh Ioniq hatchback on the horizon – with its title as every other for stay on as Hyundai’s all-electrical sub-designate, which has already spawned the in-search info from Ioniq 5 mid-dimension ‘SUV’.
Due at the same time the closing Ioniq hatchbacks roll into showrooms is the Ioniq 6, a huge, 4.9-metre prolonged electrical sedan underpinned by Hyundai’s E-GMP structure, designed completely for electrical vehicles.
The Ioniq fluctuate will lengthen additional in 2024 with the enormous Ioniq 7 seven-seat SUV – even though there might be no signal of a smaller Ioniq 1, 2, 3 or 4 to replace these days’s Ioniq hatch.
Priced from $33,990 earlier than on-road costs at delivery for an entry-level Hybrid Elite mannequin, to $48,990 earlier than on-road costs for a flagship Electrical Premium variant, the Ioniq change into Hyundai’s first electrified car, and the first car in Australia providing hybrid, jog-in hybrid and electrical alternatives.
Following a facelift in leisurely 2019, and the deletion of the entry-level hybrid variants remaining year, the fluctuate now costs from $41,390 plus on-road costs for the Hybrid Premium, to $54,010 plus on-road costs for the Electrical Premium.
VFACTS gross sales figures characterize 2086 Ioniq examples as purchased up to the cease of April 2022, along with around 100 vehicles reported as purchased earlier than the legitimate delivery in leisurely 2018 for rapidly trials.
Above: The fresh Hyundai Ioniq 5.Despite costing $4080 greater than it did three years in the past – albeit with a elevated battery than earlier than – the cheaper Ioniq Electrical Elite’s $49,070 plus on-road costs imprint makes it Australia’s third-most inexpensive fresh electrical car.
The Ioniq Electrical change into Australia’s fourth-most traditional electrical car in the first three months of 2022, in the again of the Tesla Model 3, Mercedes-Benz EQA and Hyundai’s derive Kona Electrical exiguous SUV.
I’m capable of substantiate Hyundai Motor Company Australia has right closed the dispute books for IONIQ (Electrical, Hybrid and Breeze-In) – now to no longer be pressured with IONIQ 5 – with the closing gadgets arriving in the community in the 2nd half of 2022.
Coincidentally, the Ioniq Hybrid’s major rival, the Toyota Prius, change into axed in the community lower than 24 hours earlier than this epic change into published, after 21 years on sale.
Alex Misoyannis has been writing about vehicles since 2017, when he began his derive web location, Redline. He contributed for Power in 2018, earlier than becoming a member of CarAdvice in 2019, turning into a widespread contributing journalist within the facts body of workers in 2020.
Autos have played a central role for the duration of Alex’s life, from flicking through car magazines as a young age, to rising up around efficiency vehicles in a car-loving family.
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