Hyundai Ioniq 5

Just wondering how people are finding efficiency and range, quite cool atm but at least almost no winds and roads quite dry generally.

Ours is the 58kWh Executive, haven't had a chance to drive it much as yet. (The missus wont let me lol) but brought for a trip yesterday on an economical run max 80 km/h speed limits but a bit at 100km/h rural fairly flat Co Wexford roads. Heated seat and steering wheel on, heating on fairly low. The return trip (Incl her previous few short 3km commutes) was 16.4kWh/100km. (Since last charged).

Impressed with that for such a big car, I know on motorway will be worse. My ID.3 would probably be similar enough in winter if including the short commutes.

I'm finding it is very dependant on driving style. If you want to belt it, it will zap the energy.

But if you want to be economic you very much can be. I did a short run yesterday on motorway at 107km speed limiter on, averaged over 10km per kWh with a bit of coasting on obvious downhill bits.

I think what I'm saying is, it's very good. Whatever you need to get out of it, you can if you drive it a certain way.

Its adaptable, If you're on a run and you think you're coming up short you can switch it up and drastically increase efficiency

Are most people using regen braking? I use it on L3. Just wondering how much more efficient it makes it? It's a very different ride with it turned off.

Using regen as little as possible unless I have to stop.. freewheeling will always be the most efficient.

I use ipedal all the time. Always used level 3 though on my old Ioniq so I’m used to the pull back

Re. Efficiency, I’m at 24kwhr/100. Old Ioniq was 14.2. I get that it’s a bigger car with more bells and whistles but I’m hoping as it gets used to my driving, that will decrease. To be fair, I’m on motorway quite a lot too. I thought the heat pump would mean cold weather didn’t affect the battery?

Is anyone getting loads of attention? Constantly being stopped by people. One fairly old lady told me she’d buy it off me earlier!

Efficiency I’m getting 17.2 kWh/100kms but I’m not really driving efficiently. Did a spin up the motorway (may or may not have been over 120km/h and got 20.4 kWh/100kms).

I've regen set to Auto and it’s been really good

Ahh lads relax stick it into sport and enjoy 😜

Reminds

It reminds me of the diesel efficiency days when the difference between 45mpg and 50mpg was fundamentally important to owners of a €40k car 😏

It’s all a moot point really, as the only certainty with the EV market over the coming short years is that range and efficiency will improve with each iteration.

as the current stock of EVs make it to their 5-8th birthday and battery degradation turns out to be more or less a nothing burger, then the 2nd hand market will hold up fine too.

(batteries will indeed degrade however - 2nd hand EVs aren’t going to defy the laws of physics 😏)

Was that after a short journey? Battery was probably not at a low enough state of charge or it was too cold.

Not really. EV's can sometimes "rob" a few kW from the charger to run the cabin heating but it wont really make any noticeable difference to your overall charging session or peak rates.

In old money, that’s not far off the cost of diesel for a similar range, and electricity sure isn't getting any cheaper in the coming years.

home charging is the only way it makes sense, or splash and dash - spend 10min adding 50km range just to get home

Sat behind a 5 today. As we slowed down for the traffic lights the brake lights never came on. Now we weren't going particularly fast but still had to come to a standstill from 35 - 40kmh. I know in the model 3 the brake lights will come on under regen.

I was disappointed because I wanted my daughter to see the lights on the back.

Actually saw 2 of these locally today. A grey one and a white one. The white just looks epic!!

I wonder if you're about my area, Cabinteely ish. I saw a grey one today that I've seen twice now, as I drove by in my white one!

Ha I was also in Terenure/KCR area today. Nevermind!

Playing around with ABRP today and found an option that allows the cars SOC to be viewed in real-time by connecting the Bluelink app to a 3rd party app/website called Tronity.

I tried it on the way home from work and found ABRP was showing my SOC within 1-2% of the cars reading.

I will test some more but this may be useful for people who don't want to purchase an OBD device to connect to ABRP.