- Hyundai’s Tucson PHEV crossover SUV refreshes its inside
- New Child and Inexperienced Zone drive modes file down powertrain edges
- As much as 33 miles of EPA-rated vary doable
The 2025 Hyundai Tucson crossover SUV tackles its midlife disaster with a sequence of updates that embrace commonplace all-wheel drive in PHEV editions, and new infotainment screens.
Arriving in dealership in July, the 2025 Hyundai Tucson plug-in hybrid prices $40,775 together with a $1,395 vacation spot cost. That nets out to be $655 greater than the present Tucson plug-in hybrid.
With the newest replace of a design that bowed in 2022, the Tucson does not provide a putting new look exterior. It sports activities a cleaner entrance finish with a brand new grille design and less complicated LED daytime operating lights, in addition to a revised rear finish with a extra pronounced skid plate.
2025 Hyundai Tucson
The inside spends many of the renovation funds: Hyundai’s changed a boring middle stack with a horizontally themed design like that from the Ioniq 6 electrical sedan, and transformed the previous tombstone-style infotainment touchscreen right into a sweeping band of shows additionally like that in its electric-car lineup. The broad infotainment touchscreen now floats underneath a single piece of glass together with the digital gauge cluster. USB-C ports slot in a nacelle underneath revamped local weather controls—knobs and buttons, not touch-and-swipe features buried in layers of interface. A relocated shift lever creates room for a wi-fi smartphone charger.
With that infotainment system, Hyundai now bundles wi-fi Android Auto and Apple CarPlay on each Tucson PHEV, whereas a head-up show joins the choices record. Over-the-air updates can now be acquired on the brand new SUV.
The plug-in hybrid drivetrain hasn’t modified, in and of itself, but it surely now solely comes with all-wheel drive, a 72-kw electrical motor, and the bigger 13.8-kwh battery that permits respectable EV driving vary. The EPA’s newest rankings for this configuration present an electric-only vary of 33 miles, an 80-MPGe general score, and 35 mpg as soon as the battery’s exhausted. It is rated at 268 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque. An onboard 7.2-kw charger helps it rejuice in lower than two hours on a Stage 2 charging setup.
Hyundai has coded two new drive modes for the PHEV Tucson for the brand new mannequin yr. Child mode damps preliminary acceleration to forestall jostling contained in the cabin. Inexperienced Zone is claimed to eke out extra vary from the plug-in powertrain. It is also uprated the Tucson Plug-In Hybrid’s brakes with driver-controlled regenerative braking.
Amongst different powertrains, Hyundai has axed the previous 180-hp 1.6-liter turbo-4. The bottom 187-hp 2.5-liter 4-cylinder troopers on—as does the widespread Hybrid mannequin, which sports activities the 1.6-liter turbo-4 paired with a small 1.49-kwh lithium-ion battery and a 47.7-kw electrical motor for 231 hp and 258 lb-ft, and EPA rankings of 38/38/38 mpg.