Kia notably took advantage of the launch of the EV6 to climb to the top of the rankings.
Ford for its part sold 7,407 electric vehicles, which represents 4.66% of the market. Hyundai has 6,954 registrations of electric vehicles, mainly of its Ioniq 5 crossover, or 4.38%.
Nissan is next with 4,401 registrations, Volkswagen 2,926, Polestar 2,389, Rivian 701 and Lucid 308.
GM, which had suspended production of the Chevy Bolt and Chevy Bolt EUV because of a battery problem, had only 479 registrations.
It’s important to remember that registrations don’t track sales data.
Hyundai/Kia owes its success in particular to two models: the Ioniq 5 and the EV6.
It is a rule of the automotive industry: production models always differ quite significantly from the concept car from which they derive. Technical/industrial constraints, standards and cost logic explain it. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 has no use for this rule.
It looks like the vehicle that was sent into production is the concept car: pure lines, no frills and impressive style elements, like its luminous signature coming out of a video game.
Hyundai has opted for retractable flush handles. A long cap implanted behind the wheel covers two large 12.3-inch screens. The first for the instrumentation, the second for the infotainment system. The graphics are clean and modern, and the interface is overall very neat.
The Ioniq 5 boasts a 168 kw (225 hp) and the range is at least 303 miles on a battery charge.
The Kia EV6 embodies the new aesthetic orientations of the brand’s models. Transposed to electric, the “Tiger Nose” grille usually used on the brand’s models becomes a “Digital Tiger Face”.
The EV6 and the Ioniq 5 are built on the same modular platform designed by Hyundai and Kia, which allow them to incorporate the same motors and batteries. They kind of have similar speed, too.
Their starting price is $39,950 for the Ioniq 5 and $40,900 for the EV6.