Hydrogen bombs – Hyundai N Vision super car to go fully electric
Fresh details of the inbound Hyundai N Vision 74 supercar have surfaced which reveal it will ditch the show car’s hydrogen fuel-cell power and could be reinvented as a “high-performance EV”.
Originally, the stunning retro-bodied Hyundai N Vision 74 was supposed to be here in 2026 but now the Korean car giant has admitted to investors it will launch by 2030, suggesting a debut towards the end of this decade.
Just one of 21 new vehicles it will introduce from now until 2030, no further details have been revealed but last year rumours suggested that Hyundai would build just 100 of its N Vision 74s, with only 70 for road use and a further 30 for racing.
It thought a switch from hydrogen fuel-cell to pure-EV power could help it boost the production numbers.
Drawing plenty of inspiration from the original Giorgetto Giugiaro designed 1974 Pony Coupe Concept, the 2022 concept pumped out an impressive 500kW and 900Nm or torque and had a unique dual-motor rear axle and a 62.4kWh battery.
Unlike a regular EV the battery only feeds current at low-speed and in urban environments.
At high speed and during track use the fuel-cell kicks in and uses hydrogen fed from twin fuel tanks to produce electricity.
The combined range of both the fuel cell and battery electric powertrain is said to be more than 600km.
With a simpler all-electric powertrain that could potentially debut the firm’s next-gen solid-state cells, a battery-powered version could make even more power, comfortably delivering a sub-3.0-second 0-100km/h sprint.
Ensuring it drives as well as it looks, the Hyundai N Vision 74 is being developed by the car-maker’s N Performance division that most recently rolled out the 478kW Hyundai IONIQ 5 N – it’s first high-performance EV.
