2020 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid pricing released, with cars arriving soon

Hyundai has revealed comprehensive pricing details for the 2020 Sonata Hybrid. On sale now, the sedan is offered in a few trim amounts, and it can be scheduled to get to showrooms across the United States in June.

The lineup features an entry-level, performance-targeted product named Blue, a mid-vary trim referred to as SEL, and a vary-topping variant dubbed Minimal. They’re priced at $28,725, $thirty,875, and $36,275 after a obligatory $975 desired destination charge enters the equation. To add context, the non-hybrid Sonata commences at $24,575 whilst the outgoing 2019 Sonata Hybrid — which was only provided in two trim amounts — prices $26,680 immediately after desired destination.

Each and every Sonata Hybrid comes regular with LED headlights, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, an digital parking brake, automatic weather manage, additionally an array of digital driving aids these types of as forward collision aid, rear cross-traffic notify and lane-holding aid. The record of selections features Hyundai’s smartphone-based Digital Crucial, which allows owners unlock, commence and lock their automobile utilizing an application, and Freeway Driving Aid technological know-how. Note some of these further-price tag functions are regular on the Minimal trim.

All variants of the 2020 Sonata Hybrid are powered by a 192-horsepower gasoline-electrical drivetrain that is composed of a two.-liter 4-cylinder motor, a 6-pace automatic transmission, and a compact electrical motor. The performance crown goes to the Blue product, which returns fifty mpg in the metropolis, fifty four mpg on the highway, and 52 mpg in a merged cycle according to the Environmental Security Agency (EPA). These quantities are a little bit underneath the Ioniq’s, about on par with a Toyota Camry hybrid’s, and better than individuals posted by Honda’s hybrid Accord. SEL and Minimal styles return forty five, 51, and forty seven, respectively.

Hyundai verified the plug-in product won’t return.

Hyundai packed a number of intelligent functions into the Sonata. Solar panels built-in into the roof charge the twelve-volt battery or the hybrid system’s battery pack, and they can maximize vary by up to two miles for every day if the automobile is parked in immediate sunlight for about 6 hours. Active Shift Manage technological know-how aligns the electrical motor’s rotation pace with the engine’s and the transmission’s for smoother shifts and better gasoline economic climate. All informed, the Blue trim level features up to 686 miles of driving vary, or up to 700 miles when ordered with the Solar Roof System.

Seeking in advance, you can find no sign the Sonata will spawn a totally electrical sedan. Hyundai prefers constructing long run battery-powered cars and trucks on a dedicated system, and supplying them a standalone structure. It has a number of EVs in the pipeline, like a hatchback inspired by the retro-styled forty five principle unveiled at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Present.