Hyundai Kona Electric 2024: Australian pricing and specifications

Hyundai Motor Firm Australia has at the present time confirmed pricing for its 2nd-generation Kona minute SUV, as smartly as a stout listing of specifications.

The current Kona has been priced from $54,000 earlier than on-avenue charges, or $500 lower than the entry-level model of the old generation electrical minute SUV.

Two orderly stages can be available at commence, Kona Electric and Kona Electric Top rate, with the range topping out at $68,000 earlier than on-avenue charges for the Top rate. In distinction to the now much less pricey injurious model, the present high-spec model is $4,000 bigger than the old generation’s range topping Highlander variant.

Hyundai says it has made several enhancements to the current Kona Electric, along side elevated using range, futuristic invent language and greater practicality due to the a dimensionally- bigger vehicle.

The Hyundai Kona EV will compete with other smaller electrical vehicles such because the BYD Atto 3 (priced between $forty eight,011 and $51,011 earlier than on-roads) and the present MG4 (priced between $38,990 and $59,990).

The current-generation electrical minute SUV is on sale in Australia now, with petrol and hybrid variants of the Kona having launched earlier this year.

EV powertrains and batteries for the Kona

Hyundai will commence the most as a lot as the moment electrical model of the Kona with two battery sizes, as smartly as two diversified strength stages for the vehicle’s front-mounted drivetrain.

The injurious Hyundai Kona Electric will devour a 99kW/255Nm front electrical motor linked to a forty eight.6kWh lithium-ion battery pack.

The Kona Electric would per chance even be available with a greater 64.8kWh battery pack and a extra significant 150kW/255Nm front-mounted electrical motor.

The flagship Kona Electric Top rate uses a 150kW/255Nm electrical motor and the upper 64.8kWh battery pack.

Battery range for the model is a claimed 370km (WLTP) for the smallest battery, while the upper battery has a claimed range of 505km (WLTP) for the Prolonged Range riding on 17-scamper wheels, or 444km (WLTP) for the Top rate riding on greater 19-scamper wheels.

Owners can be in a put aside to cost their current Kona Electric at speeds of as a lot as 10.4kW AC, or 100kW DC.

Same old specifications for the Kona EV revealed

As customary, the present Hyundai Kona EV will characteristic the next system:

• 12.3-scamper centre touchscreen
• 12.3-scamper digital instrument cluster
• Six-speaker sound system
• One-pedal power mode
• Digital engine sound system
• Satellite navigation
• Dual-zone native climate cope with watch over
• Top rate cloth seats
• Wireless telephone charging
• Leather-essentially based entirely guidance wheel
• 17-scamper alloy wheels
• LED headlights and tail lights

Stepping as a lot as the Kona Electric Top rate, this variant provides:

• Higher 19-scamper alloy wheels
• LED quad-projection headlights
• LED front parking gentle
• Head-up repeat
• Bose eight-speaker sound system
• Leather-essentially based entirely upholstery
• 10-formulation powered driver seat
• Eight-formulation powered front passenger seat
• Heating and ventilation for front row seats
• Heated guidance wheel
• Ambient lights
• Extensive glass sunroof

How safe is the Hyundai Kona EV?

The current Hyundai Kona Electric comes customary with the next security system:

• Hyundai Aesthetic Sense along side:
  • Seven airbags
  • Blind-location collision avoidance
  • Driver characteristic visual display unit
  • Evasive guidance back
  • Junction crossing and lane change oncoming alert
  • Excessive beam back
  • Wise tempo restrict
  • Rear sinful visitors collision avoidance
  • Adaptive cruise cope with watch over
  • Staunch exit warning
• Multi-collision avoidance brake
• Tyre stress monitoring system
• Front and rear parking sensors

In the Top rate, owners affect extra security system along side:

• Blind location gaze visual display unit
• Parking collision avoidance
• 360-level digital camera
• Some distance flung natty parking
• Aspect parking sensors

The current Kona has no longer yet been break examined in Australia by ANCAP, on the opposite hand Euro NCAP – ANCAP’s closely related European Original Automobile Assessment Program – gave the present-generation vehicle a four-big title ranking in gradual 2023.

Hyundai Kona Electric 2024: costs in Australia

All costs listed are earlier than on-avenue charges.

• Kona Electric forty eight.6kWh Same old Range: $54,000
• Kona Electric 64.8kWh Prolonged Range: $58,000
• Kona Electric Top rate 64.8kWh Prolonged Range: $68,000