[Auto] Hyundai Kona Electric breaks production record in Europe

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link: https://www.motor.es/noticias/hyundai-kona-electric-record-europa-202181378.html

 

 

The Hyundai Kona Electric was the first electric model in its class, a crossover with a slightly differentiated design from the combustion variants. The Korean broke in with such force that it has become the most successful model in production in Europe.

Hyundai surprised the world by launching the first electric crossover in 2018 and not many predicted a commercial success like the one it boasts today. The Koreans embarked on a more than complicated challenge, as it meant entering a segment of the most difficult market, that of compact cars.

The Kona Electric has managed to succeed, largely thanks to the attractive design it offers, slightly differentiated from the combustion versions, and a very suggestive offer with two versions of 136 and 204 hp and a maximum range of up to 450 kilometers.

 

 

The Hyundai Kona Electric is one of the most successful models in Germany
Today, Hyundai can boast to the competition that with almost four years in production - it was launched in 2018 - it has become a real success, with no less than 100,000 units sold in Europe. The Korean firm has indicated that one in four units of the Kona corresponds to electric and with an increasingly high demand, with 142,000 units sold worldwide.

 

A milestone that has been possible thanks to the expansion of production since, at first, manufacturing was limited to the plant in Ulsan, South Korea, being imported to the Old Continent and to the rest of the markets. With the recent aesthetic update, the brand added the production of the model to the factory in Nošovice, in the Czech Republic, thus also reducing delivery times.

 

An extremely important pillar in the firm's purest sustainable mobility strategy, which has set itself the ambitious goal of selling one million electric cars worldwide from 2025. By then, a veritable barrage of new models is expected -in In particular, a dozen - which has started with the new IONIQ 5, will continue next year with the IONIQ 6 and the IONIQ 7 in 2024.