ROUNDUP: Hyundai Wants You to Live In Your EV
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GM, EVGo and truck stop operator Pilot Company announced they will install 2,000 DC fast chargers for EVs at up to 500 Pilot and Flying J truck stops in the US. This is in addition to the 3,250 chargers GM and EVGo are already installing.
As the infrastructure for charging starts to take shape, the competitive landscape for EVs is expanding as well. Hyundai is one of the fastest growing EV makers.
And Hyundai is pitching its next EV, the Ioniq 6 sedan, as a "personal mobile studio."
The car has four USB-C ports and one USB-A port. And will be Hyundai's first car to support over-the-air software updates.
There's a notes application built into one of the two 12-inch screens and the center console is wide enough to hold a laptop. Hyundai also showed off an accessory for the call called the Ioniq Smart Table that snaps on to the center console providing more workspace and 3 additional USB-C ports. The idea is you would fold it out while parked to get some work done, perhaps while charging up the battery.
The ambient lighting lets you switch between 64 different interior colors and six pre-selected themes.
But it is also a car.
It's designed with a 0.21 drag coefficient which it claims achieves 14kWh per 100 kilometers. If you opt for the larger of two battery options- 77.4-kWh, you get a 379-mile range (by European standards). The 53-kWh battery gives you. Shorter range.
It offers All Wheel Drive and can go 0-100 kilometers-per-hour in 5.1 seconds. The lights brighten as you accelerate by the way.
And because reasons, there's an NFT collection and you can drive the car virtually in Zepeto and Roblox as well as in VR headsets.
Production of the Hyundai Ioniq 6 begins in Q3 in Korea, Europe later this year and in the US in January.
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