The N Vision 74 coupe was a slick embodiment of Hyundai’s “high-performance imaginativeness of electrification” 2 years agone that we person hoped to spot arsenic a existent vehicle. That seems mode much apt present that it got namechecked successful Hyundai’s program to motorboat 21 afloat electrical models by 2030. This descent (below) is from the company’s 2024 CEO Investor Day presentation, explaining the scope of vehicles the institution volition motorboat and listing the Vision 74 and the Genesis Magma concept.
The program besides includes affordable EVs similar its Inster / Casper subcompact, the three-row Ioniq 9 that’s adjacent up to motorboat successful the US, luxury EVs from Genesis, and, finally, high-performance models.
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Executives didn’t straight notation the N Vision 74 as the descent was shown. In effect to an enquiry from The Verge, PR manager Michael Stewart pointed to the slides and video presumption arsenic each of the accusation disposable astatine this time.
For the Vision 74, the institution cites inspiration from Hyundai’s 1974 Pony Coupe conception that shared a decorator with the DMC DeLorean and a virtual supercar, the Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo from 2015.
The Vision 74’s nexus to that virtual supercar included a hybrid hydrogen substance compartment system. Still, this announcement wasn’t straight connected to Hyundai’s hybrid plans, truthful successful immoderate signifier the existent car arrives, it whitethorn beryllium precise antithetic than what we’ve seen truthful far. Of course, successful different parts of the presentation, Hyundai talked up plans for extended-range electrical vehicles (EREVs) that usage a state motor to recharge the artillery pack, with the institution offering a scope of powertrain options “including ICE, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen substance compartment vehicles.”