At the Detroit Motor Show (12 to 25 January 2015), the South Korean auto company has now let the cat out of the bag: The Hyundai Sonata comes as a plug-in hybrid, making it the first such vehicle manufacturer. The car should be able to travel about 35 kilometers purely electrically driven and it's battery in just 2.5 hours later can be fully recharged. What the environmentally friendly midsize sedan everything else can?
Hyundai is now venturing finally this step and brings to the Hyundai Sonata's first plug-in hybrid on the market. In addition to the two-liter four-cylinder petrol engine, which makes 154 hp alone already, the South Koreans still gets an electric motor with 68 hp flanged so that system performance with 222 hp but more than adequate likely to be for a mid-size sedan. The power for the electric motor comes from a 9.8 kWh lithium-making-polymer battery. According to the company the vehicle is so can be on the road even 35 km electric power alone. Not much, but for a tour of the city should be enough already.
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