Hyundai Ioniq 5

The grid was built before there was any thought of people feeding into it. So simply wasnt designed for it, so of course there’s constraints. ESB aren’t getting your electricity the Market operator is. But the ESB have to deal with the headaches.

if you want to export over 3,500 then why not buy or in battery storage ? That 3,500 causes trouble especially if your neighbour is doing it too. To upgrade the system would cost multiples of what your input costs.

As for fossil PP, They can’t deal with the stop start demand of a system with so much RES penetration so aren’t being accepted onto the market as their price is so high. Look at aghada or huntstown. They are available if needed, however we will be building more CCGT in the next few years. It’ll be hard to find people to build them as most have taken heavy impairments on existing ones.

Can you spec any extras on lower models or is it just the paint and seat colours?

When you ordered your Ioniq 5. Did you have choice of interior colours?

I ordered mine in Shooting star grey matte, premium plus but forgot to ask what colour is in. I'm waiting for the dealer to get back to me. I'm hoping it will be the pale colour.

There's scarcely any concrete info. I wasn't giving a choice when I ordered mine so it's been bothering me a good bit. Just waiting for the dealer to get back to me now. Some people said it only comes in two tone grey and some say it depends on the colour of the exterior.

The car we test drove was a premium black and it has the white interior.

The UK site allows you configure the colour of the interior but we get no such "fancy" options here it seems on the Irish site.

Out of curiosity what colour did you order?

The dealer got back to me there and said that it only comes in black for shooting star grey for premium plus. And essentially it can't be changed as it is the build 😐

Was on the phone to the dealer there. This based on premium plus.

Black = white interior

Galactic grey = white interior

White = black interior

Cyber grey = black interior

Shooting star grey = black interior

All the other colours (for premium plus I think) do not have ETA at the moment according to what he got back from Hyundai. While you you can register for them it could be as far as into September.

Also if anyone saw "vision roof" for premium plus on Irish hyundai site. They are not actually available in the Irish market.

That's a shame and not entirely sure I believe it to be honest. I bet that in a year's time once stock is not so scarce you can choose interior regardless of the exterior colour!!

Also, crazy about the vision roof... Its listed on the website as one of the extras for premium plus! I'd be fuming if I had ordered the premium plus spec :(

Pity if they are only going to drip feed them out, similar to the Niro and Kona in the earlier days.

The two bits of wisdom I got from 2 dealers were:

1."Can't see the base one coming in at less than 40K".

2."Sure, will probably be April before we see the lower models".

I contacted Hyundai customer care through the Hyundai Ireland website a couple of weeks ago asking about the vision roof after getting vague, conflicting and non committal information from several dealers. I wanted to place an order but it's a hell of a lot of money to spend without knowing what you're actually getting. One dealer suggested that I just place the order and see what turns up!

The response from Hyundai was -

"I can confirm that the Premium Plus Model is equipped with a Vision Roof. The roof is a fixed roof and is as per the image submitted.

I must also advise that very effort is made to ensure all our specification and equipment details are as accurate as possible and all vehicles are supplied as described. Due to local production requirements, there is always a small possibility that final production specifications may vary slightly from the details specified."

Wow I hope that is right. I ordered the premium plus and the dealer said it will not have the vision roof. Information on the exact spec of trims seems very scarce or inaccurate.

From the spec sheet I got from the dealer the premium plus does not have vision roof in the spec.

We're not getting the roof here. That's UK spec only.

I like to research a purchase and know what I'm buying, even if it's €50, never mind €50k. Hyundai are really not making this easy. I've never had so much difficulty getting information on a product. It may or may not have a sun roof and it'll arrive whenever it arrives. That's no way to run a business.

Just wondering what kind of quotes people are getting compared to the RRP?

I was quoted 48k otr for the 58kWh premium spec which is 3k above the RRP.

Maybe, seems a lot though

Jesus how much is their delivery and paint? Dealer paint protection is usually a basic product not worth the money they charge. €400 is better spent at a proper detailer for paint protection.