South Korea’s leading carmaker Hyundai Motor and its sister Kia saw the combined sales of their electric vehicles using their electric-only dedicated platform top 100, 000 in the United States in the past two years.A total of 101, 976 Hyundai and Kia cars using the electric global modular platform (E-GMP), exclusively designed for EVs, were sold stateside from December 2021 to October 2023, according to the companies, reports Yonhap news agency.

The two companies have put the four E-GMP-based models of Kia’s EV6 and Hyundai’s Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6 and Genesis GV60 on sale in the U.S. since the Ioniq 5, the first model developed on the E-GMP, made its North American debut in December 2021.Over the period, the electric compact crossover SUV Ioniq 5 was the bestselling model with a cumulative 51, 420 units sold, followed by the EV6 with 36, 838, Ioniq 6 with 9, 557 and Genesis GV60 with 4, 161.