Beijing Hyundai opened customer pre-sales for the Ioniq V at the Chengdu Auto Show on 21 August, putting a price on the first production car from Hyundai’s China-only Ioniq sub-brand. Electrek, CarNewsChina, and CnEVPost all put the three-trim ladder at 119,900 yuan, 129,900 yuan, and 139,900 yuan — about US$17,700 at the bottom of Electrek’s conversion. That is a China booking window, not a UK or US order bank. Shoppers on GetEVCar still compare live Hyundai EVs on the Hyundai brand hub.
Powertrain numbers line up across those three outlets even where the English trim names do not. Each car is a single-motor battery EV with a CATL lithium iron phosphate pack of either 53.5 kWh or 66.8 kWh. Motors are listed at 140 kW (188 hp) or 168 kW (225 hp). Claimed CLTC ranges sit at 520 km or 540 km on the smaller pack and 620 km or 650 km on the larger one. CLTC is a more generous cycle than WLTP or EPA, so those figures will compress if the car ever reaches Europe or North America. Electrek and CnEVPost both place the sedan on Hyundai’s E-GMP architecture with an 800-volt electrical system — the same underpinnings as the Ioniq 5 already in our catalogue. Electrek also noted that Hyundai has not published a peak DC kilowatt rating for the Ioniq V, so a “fast charge” claim stops at the 800-volt architecture until a number ships.
CarNewsChina and CnEVPost give the same body: 4,900 mm long, 1,890 mm wide, 1,470 mm tall, on a 2,900 mm wheelbase, with a fastback roof and frameless doors. That is a mid-size sedan, not a crossover. Interior kit is China-specific. All three sources describe a 27-inch central display; CarNewsChina adds a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 chip. Infotainment hooks into Baidu’s Ernie Bot and ByteDance’s Doubao. Driver assistance is a Beijing Hyundai programme with Momenta, described as highway assistance rather than unsupervised autonomy. A “Cyber Eye” head-up display appears in Electrek and CarNewsChina. None of that cabin stack is confirmed for export cars.
Trim labels still disagree. CarNewsChina used Standard, Smart Driving, and Long-Range at the three yuan prices; CnEVPost used 540 Max, 540 Max+, and 650 Max+ for the same figures. Treat the prices as confirmed and the English names as unsettled. CnEVPost also wrote that retail launch follows in September; Electrek and CarNewsChina did not independently date that start, so the calendar remains single-source. An extended-range (EREV) version has been discussed as a later addition and is not in the Chengdu pre-sale list.
Hyundai’s China design centre led the car, and both CarNewsChina and CnEVPost frame that as a China-first process meant to feed later global products. Electrek and CnEVPost say Hyundai wants the Ioniq V in overseas markets; neither published a market list or a date. Until that paperwork exists, UK shoppers should use the IONIQ 3 reservations that opened this month, not a Chengdu price list. US shoppers stay on the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6. A 119,900 yuan tag is not a UK OTR or a US MSRP, and a CLTC range is not a WLTP range. Watch for a named importer, a homologation filing, and a published DC charge rate before treating the Ioniq V as a GetEVCar market car.
