Has Hyundai just named their all-electric ute?

Two trademark capabilities by Hyundai in Australia will have revealed potential names for the lengthy-speculated but as but unconfirmed ute – or utes.

The Korean imprint on the second has two launch capabilities for ‘Ioniq T7’ and ‘Ioniq T10’, which had been filed on December Twenty seventh and are on the second present process a consideration process on the IP Australia website.

It isn’t explicitly acknowledged in the application that the names make clear to a ute, with a nice umbrella of labels marked on the file starting from autos to electric autos, autos and SUVs.

On the opposite hand, while the automaker has not formally confirmed manufacturing of a ute, it has been a lengthy speculated risk for rather a lot of years, with most most modern Chasing Vehicles experiences that an electrical-handiest ute used to be beneath active consideration.

Undoubtedly, the trademark filings beneath the Ioniq subrand would fetch sense on this regard, and it’s that you just can factor in that the ‘T’ designation could consult with ‘truck’ – a logical inference given the importance of pickup autos to the American market.

On the opposite hand, the submitting of two names is a appealing pattern, given it could imply two utes – doubtlessly a bigger flagship and a smaller sibling – or, on the flipside, it could simply be two varied naming alternate options for a sole model.

Either methodology, a ‘T10’ name would imply a fluctuate-topping variant which, per nomenclature, will possible be higher in dimension than the upcoming Ioniq 7 seven-seat astronomical SUV, suggesting a more gargantuan ute and doubtlessly Ford F-150-model rival.

If hypothesis is correct, the ute or utes could be half of a growing lineup of Ioniq electric autos which already contains the Ioniq 5 medium SUV, Ioniq 6 sedan and the aforementioned but not but revealed Ioniq 7.

It’s not obvious what platform the Hyundai electric ute could sit on, even supposing Hyundai’s Built-in Modular Architecture possible has the flexibleness to make the premise for a astronomical pickup.

An electrical ute wouldn’t be the first pickup vehicle from the logo, even supposing it’d be its first in Australia – Hyundai already manufactures the Santa Cruz ute in the US but this isn’t made available for stunning-hand-drive markets international.

While it looks Hyundai has all but dominated out an internal combustion ute, its sister imprint Kia is tantalizing ahead with plans to free up its first pickup truck – anticipated to be known as the Tasman –  as a diesel powered ute in 2025. It’s broadly anticipated that EV variants of that ute will later be aware.

The extremely lucrative ute market is a obvious different for Hyundai and Kia – Australia’s quantity five and 4 vehicle brands respectively – to develop sales in the community, with final twelve months’s high 3 autos all falling in the category.

With this kind of packed lineup of recent autos coming out this twelve months, be sure you not sleep to this point with the Chasing Vehicles recent vehicle calendar for 2024.