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SEOUL \u2014 It\u2019s 430 kilometers (267 miles) to Busan, we\u2019ve got a fully charged battery and a half-cup of coffee. It\u2019s 9:30 a.m., the mercury reads 0 Celsius, and we\u2019re driving a Hyundai Ioniq 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n If all goes well, I\u2019ll make it by nightfall with plenty of juice to spare, even without recharging.<\/p>\n Hyundai Motor Co.<\/a> designed this Korean cross-country drive challenge for a reason: To show that its new three-row, full-electric crossover is engineered to make range anxiety<\/a> an afterthought \u2014 even during highway-speed long hauls in freezing temperatures that would normally do in an EV battery.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s see how many of you can finish this drive without recharging,\u201d Joonmin Lee, global head of product promotion, told us journalists during the mid-February event, just before we departed Seoul in a convoy of crossovers. \u201cThat\u2019s the whole purpose of this test drive.\u201d<\/p>\n A host of technological tweaks ekes every electron from the 110-kilowatt-hour battery, delivering over 300 miles of EPA-rated range in all setups and maxing out at 335 miles in the long-range version.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Automotive News F&I Report to get news, ideas and commentary delivered each Wednesday afternoon on how to maximize profits from your F&I products and services.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Hyundai\u2019s fixation on driving distance helps the Ioniq 9 stand out from the Kia EV9<\/a>, its platform-sharing corporate stablemate. The EV9\u2019s long-range 100-kilowatt-hour battery gets a top EPA rating of just 304 miles, and the standard model has a 76-kWh battery for only 230 miles.<\/p>\n But the Ioniq 9\u2019s range is buttressed by other technological tricks.<\/p>\n