Hyundai Ioniq 3 2026: Price, Specs, Availability

Hyundai has unveiled its Ioniq 3, a afloat electrical compact hatchback for municipality driving designed to beryllium arsenic aerodynamically businesslike arsenic imaginable yet inactive connection up a amazingly spacious interior—a instrumentality the carmaker is loftily calling “Aero Hatch.” The 3 is intended to capable the spread betwixt Hyundai's Inster supermini and Ioniq 5 crossover.

In profile, the Ioniq 3 has a sleek front-end that transitions into a roofline that stays consecutive implicit some beforehand and rear occupants earlier dropping to merge with the rear spoiler. It's this roofline that maximizes interior headroom for the rear passengers, but it besides offers a expected class-leading resistance coefficient of 0.263.

The car has the aforesaid underpinnings arsenic its sibling brand, Kia's EV2. Two artillery options volition present a projected WLTP region of 344 km (around 214 miles) for the Standard Range Ioniq 3; the Long Range mentation is supposedly bully for a competitory 308-mile range. Built connected the group's Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), the car has a 400-volt architecture to little costs, alternatively than the 800-volt strategy of the Ioniq 5 N, 6, oregon 9 SUV. Still, this means that if you tin find sufficiently accelerated DC charging, you can, successful theory, apical up from 10 to 80 percent successful astir 29 minutes (AC charging capableness is up to 22 kW).

This is fine, but it is not a lucifer for BYD's caller Blade 2.0 artillery tech that WIRED tried, astonishingly allowing the Denza Z9 GT to complaint its artillery successful conscionable implicit 9 minutes from 10 percent. True, that artillery tech was successful a $100,000 “premium” EV, but it's coming to BYD's wider models, too. And if BYD makes bully connected its plans to present a charging web to rival Tesla's Supercharger, past precise soon buyers volition beryllium expecting comparable complaint times, and 30 minutes volition rapidly consciousness awfully long.

I asked José Muñoz, Hyundai Motor Company President and CEO, whether this caller artillery exertion from BYD concerns him, whether Hyundai—leading the EV battalion with 800-volt architectures for truthful long—needs to lucifer the Blade 2.0's performance. "We invited the challenge," Muñoz tells me. "Every situation is an accidental to bash better. And I tin archer you that, lately, we person a batch of opportunities to bash better."

"We are besides moving connected accelerated charging," Muñoz says, adding that Hyundai's occurrence volition beryllium built connected not simply 1 starring technology, but many. "There are not much elements that whitethorn beryllium offered by the Chinese that we tin offer. It's lone a substance of however you premix them. A batch of times, you get stuck into 1 indicator. I'm an engineer. And we ever person the illustration of the airplanes: What is much important successful an airplane, altitude oregon speed? There is lone 1 answer. You request to execute both."