Hyundai Ioniq 5

Yep - that's why I contacted Hyundai Ireland to verify the actual service interval (which is different to the free annual 'health check' each year for the first 5 years of the vehicles life). Dealer had set mine to 15,000 KMs or 1 year which conflicted with the information in the owners manual so I reached out to Hyundai Ireland & got that 2 year / 30,000KMs whichever comes first verification etc..

Obi is looking for a big battery one.

A lot of new EV owners often think there is something wrong with their new car when the efficiency numbers don't match the WLTP.

20kWh/100 km wouldn't be unusual at this time of year.

My 58kW Exec is giving me about 16kWh/100km but I have a 45 km commute on national roads. The efficiency drops big time if I do a lot of stop/start driving, or if I am doing motorway runs.

Once temperatures go above 10 degrees consistently your numbers should improve.

I'm in an Ioniq 6 which has the same 77kWh battery and is built on the same platform as the Ioniq 5 albeit the I6 is a different shape.

The real world range for me during the recent colder weather has been about 400km - 100% to 0% in theory (18.75kWh/100km) if there is a lot of motorway driving and about 450km (16.9kWh/100km) if I'm on mainly national / local roads. I always precondition to the fast DC chargers on longer trips, a warm battery will give you better efficiency and a much faster charge.

I find that driving in continuous heavy rain and very wet roads hits the efficiency hard, even at slower speeds. I always set the heating to 22 degrees on auto 1, use the demister and the heated seats if I want. I'd rather have lower efficiency than be driving in a cold car :) I keep regen at L3, not sold on ipedal (L4) yet. I rarely drive in sport or eco mode, staying in the middle of the options.

Blue link has recorded my average consumption at 17.3kWh/100km for the last month (I did 3000km), so the 20.5kWh/100km you mention looks reasonable assuming mixed driving speeds. Check your tyre pressures are correct - I'm not sure what they should be for the I5, maybe 38 psi?

As with all EVs, the efficiency will improve as the temperature/ weather gets better.

Enjoy the car!

It's because the official fuel efficiency is done on L3 the car has to default to that. It's annoying when you forget to go back to ipedal after doing a reverse.

I have 96k kms on an iconic 5 (221 so might actually be the smaller battery early iconic 5s had slightly smaller batter maybe 73)

My average usage over 2 years is currently 20kwh/100km

This was actually 19 odd until cold spell in January where it has drifted up would expect of will drop back to 19 over summer again on long term average

This has a large proportion of motorway mileage though at speed limits as i generally do limerick Dublin at least 1 if not twice a week

Motorway usage over winter usually sits at around 24. Around local roads in limerick 18/18.5 would be normal. All generally at speed limits with AC at 21deg. If I recharge in Dublin couple days driving in and around Dublin out on M50 back in etc would show usage of 14kwh/100kms.

Milage range depends really. My average range in Winter generally on average 320kms. Dropped to just over 300kms in cold spell. 350kms currently. Will be north of 400kms in summer. This is with a fairly large proportion of motorway miles.

On average for me car has an effective of 350kms. Anyone asks this is what I tell them. Sometime better sometimes worse but for the average person that asks "whats the mileage like" 350kms is my answer for my driving.

100% true about the the lights

I hate these Ioniq 5 ‘s on the road and I do flash them. Absolutely idiotic headlight design. Lenses in the middle are the ones that blind oncoming traffic. Glad at least one driver adjusted his lights!

I had mine diagnosed before Christmas, I gave them a ring last week to see if the part had come in and it has.

If I hadn't called I have a feeling I might be waiting a lot longer.

AFAIK there is a recall for this issue so I would have thought they will need a lot of parts.

Edit: I think I maybe wrong about the recall, I thought I read it on another forum.

Ev database is a good resource for efficiency and tends to be accurate in me experience

I don't think they've dropped the price at all. Where'd you see they had?

Yeah I think I saw the top spec was on the website at 60k not that long ago (maybe I seen it somewhere else?) but it's now listed as 55k. Dealerships seem to be sitting around 58k at the minute but I do wonder if this'll start to come down slowly as the market cools. The 1.9% APR is what is really pulling me in. I can get this for a reasonably lower montly/lend cost than an EV6 or similar. MSL are charging 8+% rates for a Seal so as far as I'm concerned the Ioniq 5 is currently looking a good deal.

I think maybe the SIMI price list had it at 60k.

Nice to see a refresh, bigger battery is great. I don't know how I feel about the buttons by the cup holder, seems like a recipie for disaster (if you're me).

Has anyone got solid figures on service costs on these? I seen earlier in the thread the talk of €1000 services which I doubt is true unless it's to replace the coolant.

Sounds decent enough, yeah I'd be going for a local certified mechanic rather than the dealer. AFAIK it's not required to use the dealership but it has to be within the specified service window. 60k would be once every 5 or 6 years, I can live with that.

While you can go outside the dealer network to get work done if you need to use the warranty or are looking for good will then it'll work against you. You do have consumer protection on your side but it's a hard fight against the motor trade to get your consumer rights so you could be without a car for a long time.

Getting anyone other than a dealer to change battery coolant in an EV is something I would be very careful about and give a lot of thought to before I'd pull the trigger.

I have had a couple of cars over the years that have been literally months outside the warranty period and the ability to lean on goodwill from the manufacturer was worth a lot of money to me at the time to sort out major problems (ICE cars).

Of course a certified mechanic could likely do a coolant change (assuming Hyundai would supply genuine parts to them), but it's a gamble if there is a warranty claim subsequently.

Given the very low costs of maintenance of an EV overall, I'd stick with dealers for the first three years at least.

I would imagine the battery is covered under warranty. There is always margin for error with things so it could just be a case of a battery that is poorer quality than usual.

If the 12v battery powers the flaps then it could be that the car is repeatedly trying to change the flap state and then draining the battery doing so.