Hyundai Ioniq 5

Does the price get locked-in on ordering or when it's delivered?

Any idea of what the price increase might be or if it can be avoided?

When you order and pay a deposit based on a price with an estimated date of delivery you are entering a contract. This is a fixed price contract and operates as if you are receiving the car there and then.

Any change has to be with your agreement. The dealer cannot withdraw if you refuse as both parties have agreed the contract and the buyer has agreed the dealer’s offer by paying the deposit.

Read the small print carefully if you have any doubts and any mention that the price may vary (which usually means an increase) should make you walk away.

Is the interior colour determined by the exterior colour? On Hyundai.ie - ioniq 5 design/colour section they have grey interior on following colours: phantom black, galactic grey, mystic olive and the remaining exterior colours are available with a black interior.

Maybe their website needs to be updated if grey is on the base model, seemed to me the interior (grey or black) was determined by the exterior colour.

On the Executive Plus the door cards are light coloured on the dark exterior colours. but the seats remain dark afaik.

On the brochure I think they state that the Executive only has the dark interior. Looks quite good imo.

Every EV sees greater efficiency in warmer weather

As I posted on Sunday, I did a trip as follows with the battery starting at 100%.

157kms outbound using I-pedal and air conditioning at 18 degrees with fan speed 1. 

Return trip 155 kms with everything else the same. 

Total distance 312 kms. 30% battery remaining and a range remaining of 120 kms thus showing a gain of 40kms.

Using the Bluelink app today revealed the following figures for that day:

Energy consumption 43.33 kWh means that approx 41% of battery remaining

Average consumption 7.13 kms per kWh

Driving distance 309 kms

Recuperation 28.46 kWh

It doesn’t add up. Why are the figures produced by the car in real time on the day at variance with the figures the car is sending to the app?

Do you have the 20" Tyres?

I'm averaging about 23kWh/100km that is driving in eco and have a theory that the 20" wheels are a lot less efficient than the 19"

Your theory is based on what? One rotation of a 19 inch wheel will cover less ground than one rotation of a 20 inch wheel and thus the 20 inch wheel will require marginally less energy to cover a given distance even accounting for the extra weight of the bigger wheel.

I've 20 inch wheels and my daily average usage is 152kwh 😂. Must be my age now but I can't remember charging it twice a day.

App is crap for data bar data on trips (distance and speed) energy usage stuff is a load of b#£&ix.

Spot on. It does make we wonder in general if EVs are supposed to be about energy efficiency and the environment why they are increasingly being fitted with 19'' and 20'' inch wheels. I get that they look good but also negates their purpose to a degree. Not specific to the Ioniq 5 by any means!!

What about them? Their contracts were terminated due to the inability of the supplier to deliver and, as per either the written or implied terms of the contract, they received their deposits back.

Thus the dealers fulfilled their part of the contract to the best of their ability.

I know, but for example within the first week of owning the ioniq 5, two neighbors came in all questions, very interested. Those same neighbors never asked a thing about my classic ioniq I had owned for 5 years...

In the teslas, where you can choose size, why do some people go with the larger wheels, when they are more expensive and less efficient...

Unfortunately size and looks matter a lot :)

The Grand Uranus arrived at the Cork port this morning and I got a mail from the dealer to let me know that my Ioniq 5 is on board. Hopefully many others will get the same news today.

I'm hoping my Premium Plus is on that ship. Was told it would arrive by end of month but that was back in January. It's a company car through a lease company. They are not as forthcoming with info as a dealer might be.