LOS ANGELES -- Hyundai Motor Co.on Wednesday unveiled the IONIQ 9 with a plan to produce the leading South Korean automaker’s first large electric sport utility vehicle not only at home but also in the US to cope with potential tariff hikes on imported cars by President-elect Donald Trump.“The IONIQ 9 will be manufactured at the new Metaplant in the state of Georgia,” said José Muñoz, its global chief operating officer (COO) and head of North and South American operations, at the electric vehicle’s premiere, referring to its EV plant in Bryan County, west of Savannah, which is scheduled to start operations this year.“Together with the support of our EV plant in Ulsan, Korea, we aim to sell two million EVs per year globally by 2030," he said at the EV’s world premiere event at the Goldstein Residence in Los Angeles.
The IONIQ 9 is Hyundai Motor Co.’s first model to eliminate the roof antenna by dividing its functions between the windshield cover for the global positioning system (GPS) and satellite radio, the instrument panel for connected car services, and the tailgate glass for FM/AM and digital multimedia broadcasting, according to the company.
Its exterior lighting aligns with Hyundai Motor Co.’s other EV models, featuring IONIQ signature parametric pixel lamps with small cube projection headlights and an intelligent front-lighting system (IFS) to improve vision and driving safety while preventing glare to oncoming vehicles.
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