The newest member of Hyundai's family of dedicated electric vehicles debuted this evening at an event preceding the 2024 LA Auto Show. The three-row 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 electric SUV will also be the largest EV in the brand's lineup when it arrives next year with the Hyundai Motor Group's biggest battery yet, claiming over 300 miles of estimated range for all configurations and charging natively via the Tesla-pioneered NACS port with Supercharger access. The SUV's specs are complemented by thoughtful design that I think makes it also the most handsome Ioniq model yet.
The design is the production-ready distillation of the 2021 Seven concept , though Hyundai has since decided to assign the "Ioniq 9" designation to the three-row SUV, presumably to leave room for growth in the middle of the lineup. Whatever you call it, the 9 follows in the footsteps of the Editors' Choice award-winning Ioniq 5 compact eSUV and the impressively efficient Ioniq 6 , based on Hyundai Motor Group's Electric Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) and sharing many familiar technologies with its smaller siblings, but on a much larger scale. I enjoy how the large SUV's design plays with proportion and scale.
The electric powertrain will come in three flavors. The Long-Range RWD spec features a single 160-kilowatt (215 horsepower) motor that twists the rear axle with 258 foot-pounds of torque. Long-Range AWD adds a second 70 kW motor to the front axle, bringing the total to 254 hp.
Finally, the Performance AWD .