Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2015
Sonata Hybrid will be built at Hyundai’s Asan, South Korea assembly plant and will go on sale early this summer. The 2016 Sonata Hybrid features a downsized 2.0-liter a 10% improvement over the previous Sonata Hybrid, thanks to the compact battery pack dimensions and efficient design.
Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2010
The FSV Program is midway through its second phase, designing optimized AHSS body structures for four proposed 2015-2020 year vehicles: battery electric (BEV); plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV), with both PHEV-20 and PHEV-40 powertrains; and fuel cell (FCV), with variants among the different powertrain types for four and five passengers vehicles.
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2013
The company is also the thermodynamic efficiency of gasoline engines using a suite of technologies that include downsizing, turbocharging, direct injection, variable valve timing and cylinder deactivation. Earlier post.). Advanced Materials that lead to more fuel-efficient vehicles through reduced weight and mass. to reflect this change.
Cars That Think
MARCH 12, 2023
Sophisticated chassis and battery design gives new life to “lesser” chemistries—especially lithium iron phosphate that’s the hottest thing in batteries around the world—that would otherwise be uncompetitive and obsolete. This grand design, naturally, would demand an attendant burst of charger development.
Green Car Congress
MAY 26, 2015
Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be built at the Asan, South Korea plant and will go on sale in select markets later this Fall. The second-generation hybrid system has been thoroughly enhanced from its predecessor: The downsized GDI engine features an aluminum block and head, a compression ratio of 13.5:1, Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Because the high-voltage battery is both power and energy dense, engineers were able to use the downsized gasoline engine to maximize fuel economy and reduce emissions. The Optima Plug-in Hybrid is available in one trim, EX, will be built at , South Korea, and is expected to go on sale in the fourth quarter of this year.
Charged EVs
JANUARY 5, 2024
The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. The cockpit design evolves on that seen in earlier Kia models. and Canada chosen by their peers. A pair of 12.3-inch inch screens is split by a 5.0-inch Volvo EX30.
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