Hyundai and Kia are going big with their next electric vehicles

"There's no denying that the South Korean brands have recently experienced somewhat greater than expected success in the large SUV segment," mentioned Jessica Caldwell, an business analyst with the automotive web site Edmunds.com. "Although both concept vehicles seem to be pretty far out from actual production, they're positive indicators that Hyundai and Kia are thinking about growing their customer base and expanding their large SUV product pipeline to include electrified versions in the future."Both Hyundai and Kia described these ideas as sharing the identical underlying engineering, referred to as "E-GMP," or the Electric Global Modular Platfor. A extremely versatile electric primary car engineering platform, it may be used to create a wide range of fashions of broadly differing kinds and sizes.The Hyundai Seven idea is designed to supply a "premium lounge" expertise, in response to Hyundai. Lamps constructed into the insides of the doorways unfold a heat glow because the doorways swing open. There's a small fridge and a shoe-care compartment to scrub and freshen occupants' footwear. In the ceiling, there's an unlimited video display occupants can lean again and watch.There's additionally nice concern for hygiene. The airflow may be separated for entrance and rear occupants to stop cross-contamination. Built-in ultra-violet lights can sanitize the passenger compartment, and there are additionally sanitizing compartments to kill germs on private belongings.The Kia Concept 9 has more normal-seeming options. Kia boasts of its fast-charging capabilities indicating will probably be capable of go from only a 10% cost to 80% in underneath half-hour. When parked, the seats can face towards one another for straightforward dialog. Instead of a display, the roof has a big panoramic sunroof, a function supplied on many SUVs at the moment.Both Hyundai and Kia count on to start promoting new small electric automobile based mostly on the identical E-GMP platform by early next 12 months. Neither automaker mentioned when, precisely, they could begin providing big electric SUVs.