This morning, Hyundai revealed that the US Environmental Safety Company has finalized an official vary estimate for the model’s subsequent electrical automobile, the Ioniq 6 sedan. At 361 miles (581 km), it is actually spectacular, even beating the longest-ranged Tesla Mannequin 3 sedan.

As these aware of EVs already know, not each model of the Ioniq 6 has fairly a lot vary. You may want the single-motor rear-wheel drive model, using on 18-inch wheels, for optimum effectivity. Helpfully, this would be the least expensive model on sale within the US. The corporate has not introduced pricing but, however anticipate it to be much like that of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 crossover.

Including bigger wheels helpfully illustrates the deleterious impact they’ve on an EV’s vary effectivity. With 20-inch wheels, the single-motor Ioniq 6’s vary is 305 miles (491 km).

All-wheel drive additionally impacts effectivity, although the AWD Ioniq 6 can disconnect its entrance motor in eco mode to scale back drag on the powertrain. On 18-inch wheels, the AWD Ioniq 6 has a variety of 316 miles (509 km); on 20-inch wheels, that drops to 270 miles (435 km).

The automotive’s spectacular vary effectivity is partially as a result of its 800 V E-GMP platform, which has already given us extremely environment friendly EVs just like the Kia EV6 and Ioniq 5. However the smooth sedan’s form is a large contributor right here—its drag coefficient is simply 0.22.

All Ioniq 6s have the identical 77.4 kWh lithium-ion battery pack because the Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6, and like these EVs, it is able to charging from 10 to 80 % in simply 18 minutes.

In truth, Ars has already had an opportunity to get behind the wheel of this thrilling new EV, however we’ve to attend till April to inform you what it is wish to drive.