Genesis has updated the Electrified G80 with a bigger battery and more legroom

Surprise! The Genesis Electrified G80 still exists. Yep, the all-electric saloon that you’d definitely forgotten about is still on sale here in the UK, and it’s now been given a proper facelift in its home market of Korea. Expect the same changes to arrive on our shores sometime next year.

Perhaps the biggest of those changes is the fact the Electrified G80 is now, well… bigger. Genesis has added 130mm into the wheelbase over the previous car, meaning there’s 83mm more legroom in the rear seats and 20mm more headroom back there. Genesis has also added its Chauffeur Mode for the first time in an EV, which allows for smoother acceleration and braking, plus a more comfortable suspension setting for rear seat passengers.

Your chauffeur will be able to drive you further too, because the facelifted Electrified G80 (let’s just call it the E G80 from now on) also gets a new 94.5kWh battery. That results in a range of 475km (295 miles) by the Korean EV certification standards, but given the current car has an 87.2kWh battery and scores 323 miles of range on the WLTP test, expect this one to do even better when it finally arrives in Europe. Expect the same twin-motor powertrain with 365bhp too.

There’s upgraded front and rear suspension bushings to make things more comfortable for everyone inside, plus you get four-wheel steering and there’s still adaptive suspension that scans the road ahead to improve the ride quality.

Inside the E G80 you get a new 27in OLED screen that stretches across the dash and can be split into three sections. You also get a ‘touch-based heating, ventilation and air conditioning system’ that looks slightly awkward to use, as well as a redesigned steering wheel and a new crystal drive selector.

On the outside, the visual changes are very much what you’d expect from a facelift – an updated grille, new lights and fresh 19in wheels that we very much want in our lives. There’s a newly heated charge port with an electronically opening and closing cover, plus a cleaner rear bumper with new chrome accents all round.

Reckon it'll be more memorable this time around?