The Hyundai Ioniq 6 and Genesis Electrified GV70 have received the very best Prime Security Decide+ award from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security (IIHS).

For 2023, Prime Security Decide+ award winners should earn the very best “Good” rating within the IIHS’ driver-side small overlap entrance, passenger-side small overlap entrance, authentic reasonable overlap entrance (a excessive rating on the up to date model of this check is not required), and facet crash assessments.

2023 Genesis Electrified GV70

Award winners should even have headlights rated “Acceptable” or “Good” as customary gear on all trim ranges, and front-crash prevention methods with the highest “Superior” or second-tier “Superior” score in daytime vehicle-to-pedestrian collision avoidance testing.

The Ioniq 6 and Electrified GV70 be a part of a handful of different EVs on the 2023 IIHS Prime Security Decide+ record, together with the Rivian R1T, Subaru Solterra, Tesla Mannequin Y, and Volkswagen ID.4. The Lexus RZ echoes the crash-test efficiency of the Toyota bZ4X—but it surely skips the bZ4X’s base LED projector headlights that held that mannequin again from the record.

2024 Kia EV9

The Hyundai Ioniq 5, which shares its E-GMP platform with the Ioniq 6, amongst others, was named a Prime Security Decide+ for 2022. The crash-test efficiency automobiles based mostly on the E-GMP platform bodes nicely for the 2024 Kia EV9, which is due for the U.S. market later this yr. Kia additionally plans to start assembling the EV9 at its West Level, Georgia, manufacturing facility in 2024.

The Electrified GV70 is an all-electric model of the gasoline Genesis GV70 crossover. However in contrast to the gasoline variants, the Electrified GV70 is now being inbuilt Montgomery, Alabama. Each the Kia and Genesis U.S. manufacturing strikes are a response to the revamped federal EV tax credit score, which mandates U.S. meeting for qualifying automobiles.