Hyundai Offers Lifetime Battery Replacement Guarantee For Sonata Hybrid
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hyundai has recently announced they will be adding to their already impressive Hyundai Assurance. The new Hyundai Sonata Hybrid will now have a "lifetime battery replacement guarantee." The Hyundai Sonata Hybrid already gets exceptional gas mileage and now with the lifetime battery replacement, this Chicago Hyundai dealer will enjoy test driving this Hyundai even more!
Source: Green.AutoBlog
Hyundai is complementing its standard 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty by adding a "lifetime battery replacement guarantee" for the Sonata Hybrid, the only hybrid the South Korean automaker sells.
Hyundai said Monday that, in the event of breakdown of the Sonata Hybrid's lithium polymer battery, the company will replace the battery free of charge and pay for its recycling costs. Hyundai, which co-developed the lithium polymer battery with LG Chem, says the Sonata Hybrid's drivetrain can hold up under more than 300,000 miles of driving with "minimal degradation."
Hyundai continues to pitch its cars' reliability and fuel efficiency as a way to boost U.S. sales. For the model year 2010, the most recent year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tracked fleetwide fuel efficiency, Hyundai achieved a fleetwide fuel-economy level of 25.9 miles per gallon, best among the 14 largest automakers. Hyundai boosted U.S. sales by 20 percent last year to a record 645,691 vehicles, with the Sonata as its best-selling line. The company doesn't break out sales numbers specifically for the Sonata Hybrid, which is rated by the EPA to get 37 miles per gallon combined.
Hyundai has been offering a 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty on all of its vehicles since 1999.
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