Hyundai Motor’s high-performance N sub-brand revealed the RN22e and N Imaginative and prescient 74 “rolling lab” ideas to exhibit Hyundai Motor’s ambition to develop into a frontrunner within the zero-emissions future. Hyundai Motor’s rolling labs are automobiles wherein the corporate exams and verifies superior applied sciences to use them to future manufacturing fashions.
N Vison 74 (left), RN22e (proper)
RN22e melds the all-new IONIQ 6 (earlier put up) and the corporate’s Electrical-International Modular Platform (E‑GMP), whereas setting a brand new customary in high-performance EVs. In the meantime, N Imaginative and prescient 74 combines EV know-how with a complicated hydrogen gas cell system, making it Hyundai N’s first hydrogen hybrid rolling lab to discover driving enjoyable within the electrification period.
Each RN22e and N Imaginative and prescient 74 will proceed to be examined and verified by Hyundai’s engineers, so future N highway automobiles could be geared up with their superior applied sciences.
The N model declare is ‘By no means simply drive’ as a result of getting from A to B ought to by no means be boring. Even within the electrical future, N model pursues its three pillars: nook rascal (tight, completely balanced cornering machine); racetrack functionality (all N fashions are constructed to carry out instantly on the monitor); and on a regular basis sportscar (for everybody and each want, not simply monitor days and highways).
RN22e gives racetrack-ready efficiency by refining and optimizing Hyundai’s market-leading E-GMP and packaging it in an IONIQ 6-based streamliner design. As Hyundai N’s first rolling lab based mostly on E-GMP, RN22e reveals the electrified N model’s imaginative and prescient and route whereas opening the potential for a high-performance EV mannequin sooner or later. The idea acquired its identify as a result of it’s the rolling lab of N model developed in 2022 with EV efficiency.
RN22e is examined to maximise N’s three efficiency pillars, beginning with ‘nook rascal.’ N has been creating cornering functionality because the model launch and has been offering e-LSD, Nook Carving Differential, for many N fashions. RN22e elevates the nook carving really feel with inevitably heavier weight, by exploring torque vectoring by twin clutch.
Furthermore, the 3D printed components scale back weight and hold the rigidity for higher nook assault. Geared up with AWD, RN22e offers optimized torque distribution in line with completely different drive modes that enables drivers to decide on the torque energy on the entrance and rear wheels.
To reinforce RN22e’s racetrack functionality, N centered on cooling and braking to reinforce endurance. RN22e offers track-optimized settings to let prospects benefit from the circuit with out derating. Having 4 piston monoblock calipers and a 400-mm hybrid disc permits RN22e to resist the load of its energy electrical (PE) system. As well as, Hyundai N will use RN22e to check tips on how to ship dynamic motion with regen-braking that exactly controls yaw and nook assault.
As Hyundai N develops and verifies state-of-the-art applied sciences for switch to N manufacturing fashions, RN22e performs an essential position because the rolling lab for upcoming EV N fashions. Figuring out what exhilarates fans, N is creating new options, such because the emotional driving expertise for electrified fashions.
RN22e offers N Sound+, which generates sound from the inside and exterior audio system, for a dynamic driving really feel. As well as, N e-shift integrates the vibration and shifting really feel with N Sound+. As it’s a rolling lab, the place Hyundai N constantly develops superior applied sciences, these emotional driving experiences can be additional developed in numerous varieties through RN22e, in order that drivers can choose their very own enjoyable.
By adapting IONIQ 6’s streamliner design, RN22e will leverage the brand new EV’s aerodynamic options. With the intention to maximize the efficiency, Hyundai N has added motorsports-inspired particulars. Via low floor clearance and emphasised shoulders, Hyundai N achieved a design with a large and durable stance. Whereas sustaining IONIQ 6’s design, the decrease bumper has been designed to be sporty, radiating an surprising allure. With these practical aesthetics, RN22e may enhance its cooling and aerodynamics.
Measuring 4,915 mm lengthy, 2,023 mm huge and 1,479 mm tall on a 2,950 mm wheelbase, RN22e will proceed to develop with motorsports experience, so Hyundai can hone and excellent its superior applied sciences to launch a mass-production electrical N mannequin using the potential of E-GMP.
RN22e Specs:
| L / W / H // WB | 4,915 / 2,023 / 1,479 // 2,950 mm |
| Motor whole max energy | 430 kW (entrance & rear mixed) |
| Motor whole max torque | 740 N·m (entrance & rear mixed) |
| Battery capability | 77.4 kWh 400-V / 800-V quick multi-charging functionality |
| Charging time | <18 min (SOC 10% → 80%) |
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Max velocity |
> 250 km/h |
By way of design, N Imaginative and prescient 74 pays an homage to the Hyundai Pony Coupe idea from 1974, which was developed by the legendary automobile designer Giorgetto Giugiaro. The idea was then constructed into prototypes for Hyundai’s first manufacturing sports activities automobile. Though it couldn’t attain manufacturing ultimately, the daring perspective set the tone for the complete firm.
N Imaginative and prescient 74 inherited the pure floor, the dynamic proportioned profile and the distinctive B pillar from the 1974 Pony Coupe idea. Hyundai’s design heritage meets the electrification period with excessive efficiency to form N Imaginative and prescient 74. As well as, Parametric Pixel lighting offers a futuristic flourish.
Measuring 4,952 mm lengthy, 1,995 mm huge and 1,331 mm tall on a 2,905 mm wheelbase, it’s the first high-performance rolling lab constructed on probably the most superior hydrogen gas cell system that Hyundai N has created. N Imaginative and prescient 74 can be impressed by the idea automobile Hyundai N 2025 Imaginative and prescient Gran Turismo, which was unveiled in 2015 with the launch of N model to ascertain the way forward for hydrogen-based excessive efficiency.
For N Imaginative and prescient 74, Hyundai’s engineers developed a hybrid construction of a battery-electric together with an FCEV system, which is positioned in an all-new format. By having gas cell system and battery-electric powering the N Imaginative and prescient 74 collectively, the cooling effectivity is improved, whereas the 2 completely different energy sources can be utilized relying on completely different driving situations.
This fine-tuned logic system allows higher torque vectoring by twin motors on the rear, permitting a exact and responsive cornering expertise. Furthermore, N Imaginative and prescient 74 explores the stability between the efficiency and cooling with a three-channel cooling system.
The high-performance know-how is totally built-in into the design to fulfil the FCEV’s warmth administration necessities.
N Imaginative and prescient 74 Specs:
| L / W / H // WB | 4,952 / 1,995 / 1,331 // 2,905 mm |
| Motor whole max energy | > 500 kW (rear) |
| Motor whole max torque | > 900 N·m (rear) |
| Battery capability | 62.4 kWh 800-V fast-charging functionality |
| Hydrogen Tank capability | 4.2 kg |
| Gasoline cell stack output | internet 85 kW, max 95 kW |
| Refueling time | 5 min |
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Max velocity |
> 250 km/h |
Driving vary |
> 600 km |
Background. In 2012, Hyundai launched into Undertaking RM to showcase its experience in creating new know-how and innovation. Via this venture, the corporate develops and connects new high-performance know-how from motorsport with future N fashions. The identify of the venture refers back to the N prototype mannequin’s ‘Racing Midship’ rear-drive, midship powertrain configuration. The basic distinction of this design offers an excellent stability of dealing with and agility from a low polar second of inertia.
Since its initiation, the RM collection has progressively developed to incorporate RM14, RM15, RM16 and RM19. The RM platform facilitates an engineering rolling lab to check high-performance applied sciences whereas connecting to the tarmac in any respect speeds and driving situations. Having undergone progressively in depth testing, RM fashions validate superior applied sciences, observe their efficient enhance in efficiency, and enhance them for software in future N fashions.
Two years in the past, Hyundai launched the next-generation electrified RM20e Racing Midship Sports activities Automobile. Throughout the RM collection, RM20e was the primary high-performance BEV. For the primary time, Hyundai was in a position to apply the potential of zero-emissions powertrains to its high-performance automobiles.
Hyundai N has unveiled the brand new collection of rolling labs underneath a unique identify to set the brand new customary of next-generation excessive efficiency. Because the N model continues to pursue its three pillars of N efficiency, RN22e and N Imaginative and prescient 74 are being examined to maximise racetrack functionality, its on a regular basis sports activities automobile attribute and ‘nook rascal’ options. N will even keep true to its philosophy within the period of electrification.
Because the preliminary large step, Hyundai Motor’s first electrical N, IONIQ 5 N will hit the worldwide market in 2023. Extra particulars in regards to the first EV N can be unveiled later.
