Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Hyundai IONIQ 5: I Get It Now!”.
I finally got to try an ionic 5., so i was gon na. Do this whole video on the state of evs electric cars, and i was doing all this research and looking into it and the more i thought about it, the more i realized i really only had one major point to make, which is that if the future of Cars is electric, then we’re eventually going to have to get some really good, affordable electric cars like there’s a lot of really good electric cars out there already and they’re, really tempting, but they’re, all so expensive, at least more expensive than their gas counterparts, and i also Do remember when i had that conversation with elon musk in the tesla factory a while ago, and i asked him about like a potential 25 000 good mass production, electric car. If that was even possible – and he said yes – and that answer has like made headlines over and over again every few years since then, but the truth is it’s never been harder to make cars than right now and it’s never been more expensive to make cars in Right now, obviously, supply chain issues and it’s hard to make a new electric car for all these companies. But the point is yeah. We’Re eventually going to have to get some good, cheaper electric cars and this ionic 5 that i’ve been driving around for about two weeks has convinced me that we are right on the cusp of that, so the ionic to me, stay with me, is kind of like The samsung zflip4, like it’s one of the least expensive options in an expensive new category, plus a flip phone in 2022 kind of, has a little bit of a retro future vibe, and so does this car. I have started a new channel to talk about all my thoughts on cars. I actually have quite a few of them, so the first video is on the rivian r1t that i just took delivery of and we’re actually already using it to shoot this video, because that’s what i got it for it beat the cyber truck to market by quite A bit either way you can go subscribe over there if you’re interested, i’m really excited about that channel.
I’M probably gon na shoot most of that stuff on whatever phone i’m testing at the time, but the autofocus videos, no need to fear, will still be here on this main channel and i was so excited to test out the ionic 5. see at some point. I just started seeing them around more and more like there’s a lot of teslas on the road already, so they kind of blend in. At this point, i also feel, like i see a mustang mock e every other day, but these ionics just started popping up and got my attention and i kept wondering like okay, wow lots of people are buying them. They must be pretty good right, they’re picking them over other options, and now, after driving the thing for like two weeks, i get it. I fully get it. I mean this is a well-rounded all-wheel drive, crossover with plenty of space, a distinct but not super lame or flashy design, an efficient 250 plus miles of range and a sub 40 000 starting price tag, and it isn’t really bad at anything so on the outside. It has this design of like what people from the 80s thought a car of the future would look like now. It’S obviously a crossover with a lot of storage, which is what people are into right now, but it’s very retro future and angular, and i really like it and the coolest part for sure is the dot pixel theme all over the car, the tail lights and the Blinkers are pixels and the front of the car.
That’S my favorite part. The glossy black rectangle is maybe not my favorite, but everything else around it, especially the dot pattern led lights, is so sick. It’S very unique on the road and looks electric without looking dorky. I mean i can’t really ask for much more than that, and then i have these like four things that i keep in mind whenever i see a new electric car just as far as like pillars of reasonable electric cars, which would be solid range, uh fast charging, Zippy performance and extra storage so range is the easy one. How far can it go on a charge right, so the ionic 5 was giving me a really impressively accurate range estimate, as i drove around, which i really like it’s more accurate than tesla’s and so on.
A full 100 charge. It would give me around 250 miles, that’s right around my comfortable baseline and it’ll charge up to a ridiculous 350 kilowatts which would theoretically take it from 10 percent to 80 charge in 20 minutes. Now. Most of these chargers available to this car aren’t that fast, but that’s another story for another day, but then the zippy performance is the other easy part.
This is the dual motor all-wheel drive variant, so it’s a little more powerful than the single motor 300 mile version, but with a little less range and it’s easily as quick as any of its gas powered equivalents. I think on paper, it’s like a five second zero to sixty, which is already pretty good, but it’s not even about that. It’S the zero to thirty or the twenty to forty, like just zipping, around town or merging onto highways, and with all that, it’s very responsive. Now the last pillar, i say, is extra storage, because when you get rid of the gas engine, obviously there’s just a bunch of extra space and all the parts that come with it are gone. And so every company has a different way of taking advantage of that extra space. So rivien did a pickup truck with a gear tunnel and lots of other cars like tesla and ford have added a front trunk.
The ioniq does have a front trunk, but it’s so small that i don’t really count it really. They just extended the wheelbase and made a crossover suv with a ton of internal storage, big big trunk lots of legroom and headroom in there and a ton of space between the seats and there’s. Even this, like movable armrest thing between the front seats, honestly other than that this is a pretty average, if not slightly subpar interior, for a 45 000 car. But if nothing else it is spacious.
So i say it checks that ev box, so the ionic hits all those fundamentals which you know. If we were missing one of those, then i would sort of question like maybe i can’t recommend this or i’d question why it’s missing it, but it has all that stuff. So that means everything else is just extra. You know stuff, like software features, autopilot type stuff, creature, comforts little quirks and features so i’ll.
Give you a few things that the ionic does that i really like and then some other things that i don’t like so much so the ionic has paddle shifters, which might sound kind of weird for a one gear electric car, but they adjust between levels of regenerative. Braking so you can adjust on the fly with the paddles between coasting, like a regular gas car, all the way to one pedal driving where it breaks. When you come off the accelerator, it’s not the first time. I’Ve seen that, but i like it a lot that is dope.
It also has an hud up front with this top tier spec. It has a really solid traffic, aware cruise control that takes over on highway driving and makes stop and go traffic way easier, and it supports both android, auto and apple carplay, which is convenient because, aside from these capacitive buttons, which really should have either been full on Touchscreen or regular buttons, i think the worst thing in this car is the maps and it’s funny. The software and navigating around is actually pretty responsive.
It’S totally fine and the features are nice. It shows you how much range you’ll get in each driving mode plus how much extra you can get if you don’t use the air conditioner, but the second i pop into the maps which is theoretically the most important part of an electric car. It’S brutally slow and clunky and unintuitive, so apple, carplay and android.
Auto are great, you know in-car replacements, for the ui, but they aren’t particularly good at charging stuff, so they don’t know as of right now, if you’re driving an electric car or not, and so if you’re planning a trip, they don’t know how many miles of battery You have when you arrive at the charger and how long you need to stop before you need to go again. It’S uh, you kind of need to rely on it so again, android, auto apple, carplay, really good, but for actually doing a road trip and navigating through chargers and planning that way, you kind of need the in-car map to be good. I might have to add that to my electric car fundamentals anyway, i tweeted a few weeks ago. There was this sick hyundai like track concept, car and i was like yeah whoever’s doing design for hyundai right now, keep it up. You are absolutely killing it and that’s. I think the last thing i want to talk about which i think is kind of underrated.
In this whole electric car revolution, which is rolling out your first electric car for all. These companies is basically an opportunity to rebrand to start over a little bit and create a fresh reputation like if you think about it. Hyundai might be the best example like what, in the last three three four years.
What did you think about hyundai? You know the tucson, the santa fe, you know in the u.s they’re, typically 20 to 30k, pretty reasonable, affordable cars. But now, all of a sudden, this new car is 40 to 50k and is considered one of the more affordable, impressive, easy to recommend options in a new category. So i guess what i’m trying to say is these: these car companies can create a whole new reputation from scratch for this new audience, especially of younger people who are going to grow up and eventually buy their first car.
That may just be an electric car. So if your reputation was already good like a ford, then maybe don’t think too hard about it. If you’re coming out with an f-150, that’s electric, just name it the f-150 lightning.
But if you’re looking for a change in reputation that i think that a lot of companies are, then this is an opportunity for them just saying anyway, i get it now. I get the ionic 5 and i’m glad i got to test it from the eevee fundamentals. To the distinct design, that’s not too weird, not too quirky but pretty sweet.
I think it’s great, it’s not cheap, but it is one of the most affordable evs at this moment in time, uh. So yeah i get it, and not only do i get it, but this is the exact car. I think we’re gon na need to see a lot more of to sort of usher in our electric car future anyway. Go subscribe to the cars channel. If you want i’ll see you over there, it’s below the like button, thanks for watching this one catch, you guys later peace, .