Hankook iON evo

8 sizes, 225/55 R18 to 255/45 R20

Acoustic foam liner

Designed for electric cars from the ground up rather than adapted from a combustion tire, and the winner of the 2025 Auto Bild EV tire test. Good fit for a mainstream EV where the owner wants the tested answer rather than the familiar name.

Brolling
Awet grip
69dBnoise

The specification

Load index96 to 105710 to 925kg per tire

Speed ratingH to Yup to 186 mph

ConstructionXLextra load available

SeasonSummercheck the sidewall

Built for electric carsYesmaker's own claim

Sizes on record8from the EU product register

Hankook iON evofrom $87.99 plus sales tax

Buy now

A summer tread, drawn as a category. This is what this kind of tire is laid out to do, not a picture of this one's own pattern.

225/55 R18 102W in section, drawn to scale from the registered size. The sidewall height is the figure people misjudge.

Sizes we hold data for

Size	Load	Speed	Con	Marking	Price
225/55 R18	102	W	XL	none	$109.99plus sales tax
225/55 R19	103	H	XL	none	$290.69plus sales tax
235/40 R19	96	W	XL	none	$102.99plus sales tax
235/45 R18	98	W	XL	none	$262.79plus sales tax
245/45 R19	102	V	XL	none	$87.99plus sales tax
255/40 R20	101	H	XL	none	$134.99plus sales tax
255/45 R19	104	Y	XL	none	$109.99plus sales tax
255/45 R20	105	V	XL	none	$141.99plus sales tax

There is no rolling resistance grade on a US tire. What is molded into the sidewall is UTQG: a treadwear number, a traction grade of AA, A, B or C, and a temperature grade of A, B or C.

What it is for

The iON range exists because Hankook took the view that an EV tire is a different design brief rather than a different compound on the same casing. The evo is the summer tire in that range; there is an SUV version, an all-season version and a winter version built on the same thinking.

Technology

Acoustic foam liner

Who makes it

Brand	Hankook
Owned by	Hankook Tire and Technology
Head office	Seoul, South Korea
Made in	Hungary and South Korea

More on Hankook and what else they build.