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Genesis Electrified GV70 in the test: The slightly different electric SUV

2022-10-03T06:13:51.491Z


Genesis Electrified GV70 in the test: The slightly different electric SUV Created: 03/10/2022, 08:00 By: Marcus Efler With the Genesis Electrified GV70, Hyundai's luxury brand is adding the battery version of its conventional SUV. A first test drive. When it comes to electrification, Genesis is pressing the right pedal particularly hard: the luxury brand from the Hyundai Group wants, according


Genesis Electrified GV70 in the test: The slightly different electric SUV

Created: 03/10/2022, 08:00

By: Marcus Efler

With the Genesis Electrified GV70, Hyundai's luxury brand is adding the battery version of its conventional SUV.

A first test drive.

When it comes to electrification, Genesis is pressing the right pedal particularly hard: the luxury brand from the Hyundai Group wants, according to the announcement, "to become one of the first premium manufacturers to be fully electric".

As early as 2025, all new models should be cordless cars, and by 2030 every car sold will be five years before the EU bans combustion engines.

This would put the Koreans far ahead of their declared competitor Mercedes-Benz electrically, and BMW even more so - after the Munich-based company is still developing new fuel engines.

The young brand had only recently started in Germany with a more conventional range of combustion engines.

The GV70 SUV is now, after the Electrified G80 sedan, the second of these models that is also available as a pure Stromer.

Classic appearance: The Genesis Electrified GV70 is visually hardly recognizable as an electric car.

© Richard Parsons/Genesis

Genesis Electrified GV70 in the test: The slightly different electric SUV

These two battery cars have one thing in common that immediately catches the eye: they are classic vehicles that happen to be powered by electricity instead of fuel.

The Electrified GV70 comes across as an almost conservative SUV - very different from its own brand's progressive Genesis GV60 and most electric competitors.

The closed radiator grille is one of the very few features of the design that even suggests a BEV (“Battery Electric Vehicle”).

The strategy is therefore a bit similar to that used by BMW with the iX1.

Genesis Electrified GV70 in the test: classic cockpit instead of wide screen

The 4.72 meter long SUV offers space for a small family plus luggage, but it is not a space saver like many of those models that were developed exclusively as electric cars - just to name the Hyundai Ioniq 5.

It is more aimed at customers for whom the electric drive is already enough of an innovation.

The sphere, for example, that designer ball in the center console of the GV60 that changes into a driving switch after the start, is not found in the Electrified GV70.

And instead of the now standard wide screen, the driver finds digital but classically designed round instruments.

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The cockpit corresponds to that of the combustion models and is elegant with virtual round instruments.

©Genesis

Genesis Electrified GV70 in the test: As fast as a sports car

However, the ride then has all the characteristics of a modern Stromer.

The almost silent acceleration is breathtaking - especially when a push of a button on the steering wheel delivers a brief boost to each axle with 20 additional kilowatts (27 hp).

The family SUV then develops 360 kW, i.e. 490 hp, which is enough for four seconds from zero to 100 km/h.

These are values ​​that are also appropriate for top-class sports cars.

With a top speed of 235 km/h, the Genesis bucks the trend to brake e-cars early.

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The weight of 2,310 kilos prevents too high sporty ambitions in curves, but after all they are not the purpose of this SUV.

Rather the longer tour over country and highway, with comfort extras such as a chassis that detects and mitigates potholes by camera, active noise suppression and many assistance systems.

The range of officially 455 kilometers also helps with the electric journey - the almost 400, which are probably mostly realistic in practice, are also enough.

Genesis Electrified GV70

engine/drive

2 electric/four-wheel drive

power/torque

360 kW (490 hp) / 2 x 350 Nm

Vmax/0-100km/h

235km/h / 4.2s

Length Width Height

4.72/2.00/1.63m

luggage compartment volume

503 – 1,678L (+ Frunk: 25L)

consumption/range

19.2kW/100km / 455km

Price

67,300 euros

Especially since the Genesis Electrified GV70 charges really quickly thanks to its powerful 800 volts, and that too cheaply at Ionity for only 25 cents per kWh: in a brisk 18 minutes from almost empty to 80 percent battery level.

"Loading is the biggest pain point for customers, because they are unsure," says Product Manager Dominik Kling.

Particularly sensitive contemporaries then have to resort to a GV70 with diesel.

Source: merkur

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