Hyundai Ioniq EV has estimated 124-mile range, 200-mile EV by 2018

The Ioniq Hybrid, Plug-in Hybrid, and EV will be available to buyers nationwide in the U.S. The trio will have a staggered launch during the 2017 model year.

Hyundai will launch an onslaught of 28 green models in the United States by 2020, including 10 hybrids, 8 plug-in hybrids, 8 electric vehicles, and 2 with hydrogen fuel cells. At a recent briefing, the South Korean automaker dropped some details about this massive project and why it decided now was the right time for a greater emphasis on this segment.
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MDarringer - 12/10/2016 8:18:23 AM

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The Ionic appears to be a great product, but it's arriving at a time when hybrids and smaller vehicles' sales are soft.

With the predicted decline in sales of sedans and smaller vehicles over the next 12 to 24 months, I have to wonder whether it would have been shrewd to have just turned the Elantra into a hybrid-only product line.

Even if Trump's EPA relaxes CAFE, MPG will still be important to many buyers.

I honestly think that the C segment cars (not crossovers) need to be reinvented as hybrid-only, PHEV, and EV models.

That would leave the B segment to be the price-leading ICE "value" models.