To put it mildly, Hyundai hasn’t been doing well in China. However, the Korean company has now begun to reinvent itself in the market with the Ioniq V, a new EV created especially for the Chinese market in collaboration with Beijing Automotive Group Co. (BAIC), with whom it formed the joint venture Beijing Hyundai in late 2024.
The Ioniq V is the first fruit of this relationship, and it’s been exhibited today at the Beijing Auto Show. We do have to tell you that critical specs haven’t been released yet, though. We also don’t have any photographs of the car’s rear, which is a bit perplexing.
Anyway, the Ioniq V is 4,900 mm long, 1,890 mm wide, and has a 2,900 mm wheelbase. It promises to give a range of up to 600 km using the CLTC standard.
Inside there’s a 27-inch 4K screen accompanied by a Horizon head-up display, which projected critical information into the driver’s field of view. You get an eight-speaker audio system with Dolby Atmos as standard, and the suspension is “optimized for comfort and stability across various road conditions”, the official press release adds. Hyundai also promises reduced road and wind noise.
The automobile obviously features a sophisticated AI assistant, which is running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8295 CPU. The Ioniq V’s driver assistance technologies are powered by Momenta. The battery is supplied by CATL, but its capacity is still a mystery.
Hyundai’s next model for China will be an SUV, which you can see in the image above. The firm intends to launch 20 new cars in China over the next five years (including BEVs and EREVs), its most ambitious release calendar in the country ever. It intends to reach 500,000 units sold each year with the new strategy. Hopefully it will reveal the Ioniq V’s full specifications soon.
