Hyundai Blue-Will concept to make US debut at Detroit Motor Show

By Matt Brogan | January 06th, 2010

Hyundai has announced today that its Blue-Will concept will make its US debut at next week’s Detroit Motor Show.

Although the Hyundai Blue-Will concept made its world debut last April at the Seoul Motor Show, the brand’s first plug-in hybrid will still appear in concept form when shown at Detroit next week.

Blue-Will utilises the same Hybrid Blue Drive technology Hyundai unveiled at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show – a parallel hybrid system that allows the concept to run as a conventional hybrid vehicle or as a pure electric vehicle.

Hyundai says the Blue-Will can return up to 4.2L/100km in hybrid mode and a staggering 2.2L/100km when operating as a plug-in hybrid. The Blue-Will has an all-electric operating range of 65kms.

Blue-Will is powered jointly by a 1.6-litre direct-injected four-cylinder (113kW) and an electric motor (100kW) that in turn is fed by a lithium polymer battery setup.

The Blue-Will is expected to preview a dedicated hybrid model from Hyundai, with a launch date expected in late 2011.

Valet Dabess

for a hybrid, it looks quite nice
lazybones

Looks like a peugeot, 65km in EV mode. Hmmm sounds like the volt has some competition.
Tim

Honda
new golf

there are already diesels that can get approx 3.4L/100km and petrols that get approx 5.5L/km 100km. these fuels figures for this new car dont seem so great, especially when you factor in the extra cost the car will have cause of batteries etc.

why cant they just stick a electric motor into a getz? or toyota do it with a yaris. persoanlly if i was to buy an electric car to get to work and back only (due to small KM range) i would NOT want to pay a large premium for something like a volt? just give me a getz with an electric motor for 20k, a small cheap to buy and run car for around town.
Robbo

Can Hyundai have an original idea?
First Apple iPod led them to i30, iLoad etc, now VW BlueMotion leads them to Blue-Will.