Sunshine (she/her)Hyundai Quietly Starts Work On Its Own EV Batteries: Report
Go Hyundai, build those batteries 🇰🇷
Altima NEOMaybe they can drive down the price of their cars a bit by doing so?
RejZoRPeople don’t realize how big Hyundai is and what all they make as entire group. They have shipyards, heavy industry, construction machinery, the above motor group, engine power plants, electronics division, they are also investing into semiconductors for a while. Batteries will just be a part of a huge thing they are already running.
I so wanted an Ioniq, but their terrible infotainment and tiny screens just ruined the brand for me
YungOnionsInteresting. Terrible how? Slow?
They didn’t get wireless AA/Carplay until MY24.
The infotainment overall is about as smooth as my original iPad Pro from like 6 years ago. The inbuilt maps is so slow and laggy to the touch that it’s unusable.
The screen is just overall way too small (see the screens in Ford, Tesla, GMC, and new Volvos). It’s not just for tech sake; the bigger the maps are, the easier it is to read at a glance.
Sure, makes sense. How any car made post 2020 can justify not having wireless Android Auto or Carplay is beyond me.
Cars are generally “locked in”, as far as their features and software are concerned, about 3 years prior to release. One of the reasons for the gigantic jump in car prices in 2018 (IIRC), in the US, was because that was the model year where a backup camera was required to be standard. The requirement to suddenly retool their assembly lines was a huge disruption. Notice how only the Ioniq and Licid gravity are the only vehicles in 2025 with NACS, ~3 years after the brands announced their switch to it.
As far as I know it’s a license thing. For wireless they have to pay a fee to Google (I think I read something like 500 USD but no guarantee for the number). You can get an wired2wireless adapter for less than 50 bucks, so I personally don’t see it as an issue.
I got an Ioniq 6 and am pretty satisfied with the car. I’m fine with wired Android Auto but there are also pretty cheap adapters to convert it into wireless.
LiFePo batteries have supported 10C (6 minute) charging for a long time. It’s just that the battery degrades faster. Cheaper and longer life are the advantages of this chemistry. Origiinal EV/ebike chemistry has storage density advantage. SK and Japan have leadership in the latter chemistry. China in the former.
BYD says it has cut the internal resistance of its cells to allow ions to flow more freely.
Confidence in installing MW chargers must back a breakthrough, but some degradation will happen at 10C charge rate.