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Hyundai Ioniq: four doors, five passengers, compact hatchback. Frontwheel drive. Price: Hybrid: $24,299; Electric: $35,649. Engine/motor: Hybrid — 1.6-litre, four-cylinder engine, double overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder, variable valve timing, direct injection, Atkinson cycle, plus permanent magnet synchronous electric motor; Electric — permanent magnet synchronous electric motor. Power/torque, horsepower / lb-ft: gasoline engine — Hybrid: 104 @ 5,700 r.p.m. / 109 @ 4,000 plus 43 / 125 electric motor, total system output 139 / 195 (numbers not additive because power and torque peaks are developed at different r.p.m.; Electric 118 / 218. Fuel consumption, Transport Canada City/Highway, L/100 km: Hybrid “Blue” model — 4.2 / 4.0; Hybrid SE and Limited — 4.3 / 4.4; Electric — 1.6 / 1.9 (litre-equivalent / 100 km). Competition: Hybrid: Chevrolet Volt, Kia Niro, Toyota Prius; Electric — Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf, Volkswagen e-Golf. What’s best: Handsome styling; accommodating interior; excellent fuel consumption — the hybrid may even pay for itself if you drive in the city enough. What’s worst: The electric model needs much better tires; you can’t shut off the automatic door locks. What’s interesting: Hyundai is covering all the alternate-fuel bases.