Hyundai Group Sells More Than 200,000 Units Of Environmentally Friendly Cars In The US, Ioniq 5 Loses To This Model

Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 are charging NACS Tesla. (Doc. Hyundai Motor Corporation)

Hyundai Motor Corporation recently recorded sales of more than 200,000 environmentally friendly vehicles in the US from January to September 2023. This figure includes the sale of cars belonging to a subsidiary, Kia Corporation.

During the nine-month period, both of them managed to record sales of up to 213,270 units of environmentally friendly vehicles in Uncle Sam's country. This achievement is an increase of 61.6 percent compared to last year.

Reporting from Yonhap, Sunday, October 15, sales produced by the two companies were higher than overall sales last year of 182,627 units of emission-free vehicles.

Representing the Hyundai brand, cars such as Hybrid meetings are the best-selling products in the country by successfully recording sales of up to 30,353 units sold. This was followed by other electrification products such as Ioniq 5 as many as 25,306 units and Santa Fe Hybrid with 16,824 units.

Meanwhile, Kia also contributed to sales figures in this segment with the most popular SUV model. In detail, Kia Sportage Hybrid is the best-selling car with 30,604 units, followed by 20,003 units of Kia Niro Hybrid and 19,927 units of Sorento Hybrid.

In addition, the two South Korean companies also experienced a surge in sales of environmentally friendly cars in the US to 55 percent in August from 5 percent last year.

It is likely that this number will continue to grow considering that the EV facilities in the US are growing. This is followed by Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis adopting the North American Charging Standard (NACS) charging system starting at the end of 2024.

The Tesla NACS charging system will be compatible with a number of Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis models that use the Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) platform, including the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6, Kia EV6, EV9, and several other models to come.

For existing electric car owners before 2024, they will be able to access Supercharging starting in early 2025 via an adapter that can be connected to the CCS NACS port.

This move is part of Tesla's collaboration to open access to their Supercharger network to other brands with the aim of encouraging more consumers to switch to electric vehicles.