The N Vision 74 will likely be Hyundai’s coolest offering among the 21 future EVs it plans to launch by 2030.
For those who have a long enough memory to recall back to 2022, Hyundai had previously stunned the world with the showcase of its N Vision 74 concept. Sadly though at the time at least, the South Korean automaker was quite clear that this wedge-shaped retro-futuristic supercar was to amount to nothing more than a rolling lab to develop its high-performance hydrogen fuel cell hybrid technology.
Fast forward two years from then however and it does seem that Hyundai may have had a change of heart on this matter. Such is as if a slide from the South Korean automaker’s annual CEO and Investor Day presentation is to be believed anyway, the N Vision 74 will apparently be one of its future high-performance EVs, among the 21 future all-electric models it plans to launch by 2030!
Now unfortunately, this loosest of one-liner production possibilities is really about all that Hyundai has divulged recently regarding the N Vision 74. So it currently still anyone’s guess as to whether the production-bound cars will be keeping the concept’s novel hybrid hydrogen fuel cell powertrain, or adopt a more conventional battery-electric heart instead.
Just as a refresher for those who forgot though, the concept version of Hyundai’s N Vision 74 came with both a 4.2 kg hydrogen fuel tank as well as a 62.4 kWh battery pack capable of 800 V fast charging. Both these power sources were touted to possibly be used independently depending on driving condition while yielding a combined 600 km of driving range, though presumably not when all 500 kW of available power and 900 Nm of torque was unleashed by its twin rear-mounted electric motors.
A rumour that is currently floating around the N Vision 74 currently suggests that Hyundai is supposedly targeting the roll out this first-ever supercar from the South Korean marque sometime in June 2026, with R&D for it apparently already underway at the company’s Namyang development centre. The production numbers for this wedge-shaped style icon is nevertheless slated to predictably be in extremely limited numbers only, with just 100 planned units (70 for road use, and another 30 for racing).
The wedge shape of the N Vision 74 was initially conceived as an homage to the still-born Pony Coupe, which incidentally first made its debut in 1974. The Giorgetto Giugiaro designed two-door was meant to be the South Korean automaker’s first production sports car, but was unfortunately canned in period before reaching production.
Let’s hope then that Hyundai doesn’t pull the same trick twice with this N Vision 74, because a design this good and powertrain tech this cool (at least in its concept form anyway) certainly deserves to be more than just a static motor show model for the rest of its days!
