Everything we know about Hyundai and Kia’s new electric vehicle platform

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  Hyundai Motor Group has a new modular battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform for larger rear- or all-wheel drive vehicles. It's called E-GMP and it sounds very impressive. [credit: Hyundai Motor Group ]

It would be inaccurate to describe the Korean auto industry as firing on all cylinders, if only because it's also really good at making electric vehicles, and those don't have cylinders that fire. The electric versions of the Hyundai Kona, Kia Soul, and Kia Niro are about the only battery EVs to approach the range efficiency of class-leading Tesla, and it makes a pretty fine hydrogen fuel cell EV as well.

On Tuesday, Hyundai Motor Group (which owns Hyundai and Kia, as well as Genesis) showed us what comes next. It's called E-GMP, and it's the group's new modular BEV platform for bigger vehicles (analogous to Volkswagen Group's PPE architecture). Hyundai Motor Group has big plans for E-GMP-a million vehicles split over 23 new models by 2025, with the first two hitting showrooms sometime in 2021.

The tech specs are similarly impressive: an all-800V electrical architecture; bi-directional charging; DC fast charging to 80 percent in 18 minutes; and a WLTP range of 500km (310 miles).

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