The Hyundai Ioniq 5 will reportedly be the first car to roll out of the company’s new factory in Georgia this fall. In addition, the company’s CEO Jose Muñoz said car message He expects the U.S.-made version to provide buyers with the full $7,500 federal electric vehicle tax credit, while South Korean-made vehicles are not eligible for that tax credit (apart from the leasing loophole).
Hyundai will start producing the Ioniq 5 at a Georgia plant in October, but the company won’t make batteries there for “about a year.” automotive news wrote. Currently, the article states that the company will source batteries from a Hungarian factory operated by Hyundai’s battery production partner SK On in Georgia.
But the quarter covers October all the way to December, which means there’s plenty of room for some American-made Ioniq 5s to roll out CCS ports from its Georgia factory. It seems logical to assume that they would do so. When asked, Hyundai representative Christopher Paukert mentioned edge Returning to the previous announcement in October, it declined to explicitly confirm whether the first US-made models rolling off the assembly line would necessarily launch the NACS port.
