Hyundai electric cars

A high-volume Korean mainstream brand running one of the industry's broadest eco-powertrain ranges in Australia — EV, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen — spearheaded by the Ioniq sub-brand.

Hyundai Motor Company was founded in Seoul on 29 December 1967 by Chung Ju-yung. It first sold cars in Australia in 1986 (the Excel, via an independent distributor) and became a wholly owned local subsidiary, Hyundai Motor Company Australia (HMCA), in 2003. Hyundai has since become one of Australia's highest-volume brands, passing two million cumulative local sales.

Hyundai introduced its first electric vehicle to Australia in December 2018, the Ioniq Electric, followed by the Kona Electric (2019) and the dedicated 800V Ioniq 5 (2021, E-GMP platform shared with Kia/Genesis). It has since split Ioniq off as a standalone EV sub-brand (5, 6, 9) and, in 2026, added the value-tier Elexio and Inster small EVs beneath the Ioniq line, alongside a growing plug-in hybrid presence. Hyundai frames its approach as designed for tomorrow, ready for today, pairing vehicle sales with public charging-infrastructure support.

high-volume mainstream, broad eco-powertrain range

Battery-electric: Inster (city hatch), Kona Electric (small SUV), Elexio (mid SUV), Ioniq 5 and performance Ioniq 5 N, Ioniq 6 sedan (with a 2026 Ioniq 6 N performance variant), and the three-row Ioniq 9. Hyundai also sells hybrid, plug-in hybrid and (NEXO) hydrogen fuel-cell models locally.