Hyundai Ioniq 5

Battery on the navigation map is the Wireless Charging Pad. The inside of the battery (where the lightning bolt is) flashes yellow when its charging. When it has the red line through it then there's an issue. Usually with the way the phone is positioned. I've gotten it the odd time now

Completed South Co Limerick to Dublin Center Center yesterday and back with a shot of driving within and around Dublin, bray, dalkey during the day

I get on the motorway 10kms from home so motor way pretty much all the way.

Consumption Adare to Big Ball Naas junction 22.5kwh / 100kms @ 120kms aircon on (have done this journey a few times with similar consumption)

From Kill into and around Dublin during the day approx 80kms average consumption since charge at home in the morning dropped to 18.5kwh/100kms (from the 22.5 on the motorway)

Fast charged at Kill on the way out 30mins to go from 8% to 83%. Average consumption for journey home into the admittingly strong winds was 31.6kwh/100km.

This is my first EV, always been diesel to date, I have an I5 premium for 3 weeks currently 4,500kms completed. I have definitely noted that the trip from East to west takes maybe 10% more consumption that the trip west to east. I've put this down solely to driving into headwind

Thoughts on car to date -- very happy with it and I have spent plenty time in it. I do Limerick Drogheda in about 85% battery takes 92% to come home,. very comfortable, driving aids are lovely, adaptive cruise (which I didnt have in last car is lovely) i pedal prob my favourite feature. I have destination charging in Drogheda so I can pretty much get up and down without need for public charging. I have completed a couple of day trips to Dublin which do require public charging which has been a bit hit and miss but I havent been stranded yet (did get home on my first trip with 0% battery nothing like testing the range)

I have been driving the car in what I call normal driving, driving the same as I have driven every car I previously had, so no hypermiling, aircon off etc and my real world range is coming in between 330/350kms

apologies if i didn't describe route properly. Start at home with 100% I get up with about 15% left on range. Charge above to 100% and get home again with about 8%

Would be some machine to do up and down in one hit. Add my trip is actually 290kms from door to door

Real world for me so far 330/350kms that includes a good shot of motorway. I'd say you'd easily get to 400kms on 80 to 100km routes with some city driving and no motorway. My average consumption from charge yesterday dropped from motor way over 22kwh/100km average since charge to 18kwh/100kms with a few spins up and down the M50 between bray/dalkey/walkinstown so the journeys around Dublin were even better than that to drop the average

On the other hand it was only about 240kms of range into the wind last night coming down so not all journeys are equal as I'm finding out.

The missus has about 1500km up now and she is well used to EVs over the last two years. She says about 18kWh/100kms would be normal for her at this time of the year. All A and B roads and she doesn't hang around. Only charges to 80% normally and range shows 270 +/-. She reckons it's a 300 km car no problem, being more efficient than she expected. Summer of course will improve. (58kWh Executive)

On the range estimations.

The car tries to make estimates based on what happened previously.

It doesn't know what its going to be asked to do tomorrow.

Personally I reset one of the trip meters on my classic Ioniq every time I charge up.

So I can see what its doing after various percentage points.

I like to see what kms its done at 40 percent remaining or 20 percent remaining for example.

Part of the issue is that the WLTP figures are not even realistic in summer.

Never mind winter like what we have at the moment

The WLTP figures are pretty useless. My point about this is that the range at 100% charge should be consistent, as the range figures Hyundai provide in their ICE vehicles are and be neither a representation of past performance or a guess at future performance based on the past.

Your checks at certain percentages are what I have done and, as long as the variables don’t massively change, give a better guide than the numbers on the display.

Experience and familiarity will, no doubt, lessen everyone’s fixation with range. Let’s face it as far as EVs go we are at the equivalent to being in the early 1900s with ICEs, the explosion in use of the 1920s to come as more models, better charging station availability and technical advances come along.

Anyone know if there’s a way to get the actual handbrake to auto engage at power off? I would have bet any money it did when I got the car first but doesn’t do it now. I’m not talking about P gear selection, mean the actual handbrake.

Did you check your car insurance policy before shelling out the extra €40?

Some fully comp policies offer most, and some all, of the benefits as part of the insurance package.

So need some extra room for road trips (even though there loads in the ioniq 5) so either roof rack or box for detachable tow bar.

I see after market detachable tow bar on Hyundai accessories, anyone of have an idea what fitted price on that would be.

Looking also at roof racks (removable) there are Thule ones but not sure they fit the glass roof premium plus?

A cool feature I only noticed recently is that the air-con automatically goes to recirculation when passing through a tunnel.

I'm not sure where the car gets the info from though, is it reading signs or getting the info from the sat-nav?

The panel behind the rearview mirror is filled with sensors that are linked to the software. Same panel auto measures the wipers, screen brightness, reads speed limits, senses road lines etc.

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