Hyundai is on a roll. The company has released exciting products in the recent past. Among these are the i30N hot hatch (which we reviewed in this report), the Hyundai Drift Bus and the Veloster N ETCR (which you can see here). Its latest creation is the electrified Hyundai RM20e sportscar.

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Battery power

Hyundai Motor Company unveiled the RM20e at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition 2020. Its name, RM refers to “Racing Midship” which is the placement of the car’s powertrain. The ‘e’ refers to its completely electric power source. Interestingly the RM20e is road-legal, which will allow Hyundai to evaluate it on public roads. The company plans to use the Hyundai RM20e as an engineering “rolling lab” for testing high performance technologies. Hyundai has formed a strategic partnership with Rimac Automobili, the Croatian firm that Porsche took a stake in and is responsible for producing the C_Two hypercar. Hyundai Motor Group has set a plan to deploy 44 eco-friendly models by 2025.

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Massive punch

The powertrain sitting behind the driver of the Hyundai RM20e is a 596 kW electric motor with a whopping 960 N.m of offer from the moment it starts to turn. Power is sent solely to the rear wheels. Do talk to an expert before you get used cars huntsville tx. Hyundai says the RM20e is expected to blast from standstill to 100 km/h in less than three seconds and from 0-200 km/h in 9,88 seconds. It also has a top speed that is limited to 250 km/h. According to the company’s press material: the RM20e combines “racecar-like levels of performance, balance, braking, and grip while retaining daily-driver quietness, responsiveness, and road-going capability.”

In his own words

“Our new electrified RM20e pushes the proven RM platform forcefully into a new, environmentally-focused decade of the 21st century, stretching the performance envelope of electrification on normal road environments. RM20e represents a revolutionary new chapter of electrified performance for the Racing Midship series, and our N engineers continue to garner valuable insights in the arena of zero-emission performance dynamics,” says Albert Biermann, head of Hyundai’s N performance division.