Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric car sets a Guinness Book record

In one trip, he experienced an elevation change of 5802 meters and drove along the highest asphalt road in the world. The race involved a regular hatchback with one electric motor and traction batteries with a capacity of 72.6 kilowatt-hours.

Hyundai and the Ioniq 5 hatchback set a Guinness record. That sounds like the largest change in altitude for an electric car in a single trip. To get into the Book of Records, the Evo India team had to travel to the Umling La pass in Ladakh, where the highest asphalt road is located. The start was at an altitude of 5799 meters above sea level, and the participants finished three meters below zero, in the Kuttanad lowland.

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The record is notable for the fact that the route ran through areas with different climates – from the Himalayas with their sub-zero temperatures to the tropical Malabar coast. The trip lasted 14 days, during which the Ioniq 5 covered 4,900 kilometers. It was a standard hatchback with a 72.6-kilowatt-hour battery and a single electric motor with 217 horsepower and 350 Nm of torque mounted on the rear axle.

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Since it was necessary to go not up, but down, difficulties, if they arose, were usually with charging. Much more serious is the achievement of the Volkswagen ID.4 GTX, which climbed 5816 meters up the Uturunku volcano in Bolivia in May 2022 and set a climbing altitude record for battery-powered cars. In 2023, this achievement was improved by the Terren electric truck, which climbed the western slope of the Chilean volcano Ojos del Salado to 6,500 meters.

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