Hyundai and Kia are both coming out with new all-electric SUVs next year, but in low volumes

Korean automakers hyundai and kia need to step up their ev game with new cars subsequent 12 months, but they're being very cautious about their manufacturing capacity, in keeping with a brand new file.

Hyundai is having plenty of success with the all-electric version of the ioniq ev, as we anticipated in our assessment.

The vehicle is the first big all-electric attempt from the automaker, apart from the kia soul ev from its subsidiary – though that vehicle turned into a compliance vehicle based on an existingVersion.

Now they need to maintain their momentum with two new small electric powered suvs coming out next year.

Hyundai is reportedly making plans a battery-powered version of the kona (left) and kia is launching its personal electric powered model at the niro (right):

The motors will reportedly be prepared with a 50 kwh battery p.c., which can carry their variety near two hundred miles on a unmarried charge.

They are predicted to launch at a fee point of approximately 35,000 euros (~$39,000).

Now commercial enterprise korea reviews based totally onUnnamed enterprise sources that the automakers plan low production volumes for those vehicles:

“in keeping with enterprise assets on october 23, hyundai motor and kia vehicles set their annual manufacturing of the kona ev and the niro ev to be launched subsequent yr at 18,six hundred and 21,000, respectively. the figures grew 38 percent and 66 percentage, respectively, as compared to their earlier plans ultimate yr.”

At the same time as that is being supplied as a great increase in ev production potential for the koreanAutomakers, we're still speaking approximately especially low volumes.

But the overall numbers are starting to stand up there among all of the models of their slowly developing ev lineup.

In overall, with the ioniq ev, soul ev and their upcoming new models, hyundai and kia are predicted to produce a hundred,000 electric powered motors in 2018.

It’s nevertheless a fraction of what other automakers like tesla, nissan, or gm, plan to supply subsequent yr, but it’s sizeable for hyundai when you remember wherein they have been inside the evArea simply twelve months in the past.