{"id":14786,"date":"2022-02-07T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2022-02-07T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:00:44","slug":"hyundai-return-japan-only-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14786","title":{"rendered":"Report: Hyundai To Return To Japan, But Only With Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hyundai<\/a> is expected to return to the Japanese car market, after retiring in 2009 when the company was not satisfied with its sales results.<\/p>\n

According to a new Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report and an interview with Jaehoon Chang, Hyundai\u2019s chief executive officer, the company is now well prepared to not repeat the previous mistakes.<\/p>\n

The most interesting part is that as far as Japan is considered, only all-electric cars will be sold, starting with the Hyundai Ioniq 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Hyundai cars will be sold only online, which suggests a more direct approach. We will probably know more details once the plan is officially announced – later this month, according to Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve experienced huge growth on the EV side in Korea, and we\u2019re expecting the same thing will happen even faster in Japan,\u201d – Jaehoon Chang, Hyundai CEO<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article indicates however that the Hyundai EV sales goal will be “definitely” higher than “the 15,000 gasoline-engine cars sold during its prior foray”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Japan – after a strong start – has not become a major all-electric car market. In 2021, some 4.5 million vehicles were sold and BEVs were far below 1% share.<\/p>\n

In 2022, finally, we will see some more new BEV models, including the all-new Toyota bZ4X<\/a>\/Subaru Solterra<\/a> and Nissan Ariya<\/a>. There is also Tesla in the equation, which notes relatively good sales numbers.<\/p>\n

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 would be an interesting addition. It was first launched in South Korea and Europe (ramp-up) and most recently in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n

The Ioniq 5 will be followed by Hyundai Ioniq 6 sedan and Hyundai Ioniq 7 large SUV – all based on the E-GMP platform, utilized also by the latest Kia and Genesis electric cars.<\/p>\n

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Hyundai is expected to return to the Japanese car market, after retiring in 2009 when the company was not satisfied with its sales results. According to a new Bloomberg\u00a0report and an interview with Jaehoon Chang, Hyundai\u2019s chief executive officer, the company is now well prepared to not repeat the previous mistakes. The most interesting part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}