Get Hotcars Premium. Start your free trial today

The Hyundai Ioniq 6 is the first-ever all-electric sedan based on Hyundai’s E-GMP platform and will share much of its bits with the Ioniq 5.

The Hyundai Ioniq 6 has broken off its covers, and as expected, it has written some new chapters in the journey of Hyundai towards all-electric mobility. Based on the Prophecy concept showcased by Hyundai before, the new Ioniq 6 is one cool-looking four-door streamlined car that blurs the lines between a sedan and a coupe even more.

The new Hyundai Ioniq 6 continues to flourish the trends set by the Ioniq 5, Hyundai’s first-ever all-electric model based on Hyundai’s E-GMP platform specifically for all-electric cars. While retaining most of the cool bits from the Ioniq 5, the Ioniq 6 gets some more as a move of technological advancement and distinguishes itself over the former. Here are some of the cool features of the new Hyundai Ioniq 6, which will make people sit and take notice of it.

Related: How Hyundai Plans To Dominate The EV Market By 2025

Parametric lights have become a cool-looking design trait of all new-generation IC-engine and full-electric vehicles from Hyundai. The Ioniq 6 follows the trend and gets parametric lights for both front and rear. In front, the Ioniq 6 gets pixel-style daytime running LEDs within the lower housing of the wing-like sweptback headlamps.

At the back of the Ioniq 6, things become slightly more unconventional with two all-LED parametric light bars. Like the Prophecy concept, there is a long streak of parametric lights, which flow across the width of the boot lid and extend over the inner edges of the curved rear fenders.

An additional array of parametric lights is present on the spoiler placed above the boot lid and below the rear windshield. In total, more than 700 parametric lights are present on the front and rear of the Ioniq 6. Not only this, but the rear lights also play up to different animations under tasks like locking or unlocking the car.

Compared to the Hyundai models having IC engines, the E-GMP-based Hyundai Ioniq 5 received four dots on its steering wheel, which signified the letter ‘H’ in the Morse code. The Ioniq 6 retains the same two-spoke steering wheel with the same four-dotted logo. However, there’s a unique addition to it. In the Ioniq 6, these dots are LED units that glow whenever the car gets plugged in for charging.

Related: Hyundai Puts The Veloster N To Rest, But Here’s Why It Was Awesome

The Hyundai Ioniq 6 gets the same twin-screen cockpit which takes up most of the space of the wide-looking dashboard. This cockpit, with its rectangular-shaped panel with curved edges on all four corners, gets two 12-inch screens inside. While the screen behind the steering wheels serves as the full-TFT instrument console, the one to its right towards the center is the touchscreen unit for the infotainment system.

Seeking inspiration from the early streamliners of the first half of the 20th century, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 is one extremely aerodynamic car. The Ioniq 6 has streamlined sweeping bodylines, which include a smooth flowing curve from the bottom of the front windshield to the low-positioned tail lamp assembly.

Even the front and rear fenders are designed in curved themes to allow an uninterrupted airflow at higher speeds. The other elements that are enhancing the aerodynamics of Ioniq 6 include active air flaps on the front bumper corners, covered underbody, and twin spoilers at the rear.

These twin spoilers include a subtle lip spoiler above a unique-looking fixed spoiler below the rear windshield. All these elements contribute to the result of a very low drag coefficient of just 0.21 – the lowest ever in a Hyundai offering.

Hyundai has equipped the Ioniq 6 with 64-colored ambient lighting, six dual-tone color themes for the interior, and a fixed center console, unlike the Ioniq 5’s sliding console. The front doors are devoid of buttons anywhere and feature transparent storage spaces.

Related: Everything We Know About The Hyundai Seven Concept

As is the current norm among modern EVs, the futuristic cabin of the Hyundai Ioniq 6 also uses different types of recyclable materials for various aspects. While the exterior paint of the Ioniq 6’s body panels uses pigment paint made of bamboo charcoal and worn-out tires, the cabin uses carpets made of used fishnets.

The plastic panels used in various parts use fabric extracted from plastic water bottles. The other elements used in the Ioniq 6's cabin are eco-process leather and recycled PET fabric for the seats, bio TPO skin for the dashboard, and bio PET fabric for the headliner.

The Hyundai Ioniq 6 will find itself between the currently available Ioniq 5 retro-themed crossover and a big-seven-seater all-electric SUV, believed to be called Ioniq 7. While the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 7 continue to cash on the popularity of the SUVs and crossovers, the fact that the Ioniq 6 enters a niche category of streamlined sedans and coupes is a welcoming change.

The production version of the Hyundai Ioniq 6 will get rearview screens positioned at an angle on the corners of the dashboard. In place of conventional mirrors, the Ioniq 6 will have sleek-looking cameras. However, as using such cameras in place of rearview mirrors is not allowed in the US, the US-spec Hyundai Ioniq 6 might miss out on these cool-looking rearview screens. Instead, it will do away with conventional rearview mirrors like the Ioniq 5.

Hailing from India, Jeo has grown up dreaming about a red-colored Porsche 911. This fascination led him to study more about cars and their functionality in his automotive engineering days from the past. His passion for writing about cars directed him towards blogging, which he has been doing for almost a decade.